"The sadistically cruel & politically motivated sentencing of the Prairieland defendants, following a trial rife with due process violations, openly targets political speech."
Read our full statement here 📣
https://t.co/bN7x527Owl
This week in federal court, PCJF senior counsel & plaintiffs' attorney Rachel Lederman fought to bring SFPD's 2023 mass arrest of 117 young people at the Dolores Hill Bomb before a jury. @MLNow has the details. 🛹⚖️ https://t.co/bqU9N6yhag
The government is using conspiracy charges to sow fear & suppress dissent against ICE. It won't work.
"...whether people were monitoring ICE, documenting, photographing, following, blowing whistles... we stand in their corner." — Atty Bruce Nestor
https://t.co/eOK6ir5i5u
.@PeoplesForumNYC: "Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, and no lawsuit can change that." Federal court dismisses all civil rights conspiracy claims against pro-Palestine activists & The People's Forum. A ringing victory for freedom of speech. https://t.co/tljaI190Rv
Watch today 3pm ET: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, ED of PCJF & Steering Committee member of @1ACommittee on the threat to free speech and democracy at a hearing convened by @SenBooker on the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros Discovery merger. https://t.co/pobUYhC3ZJ
1/🧵 Trump’s statement that “a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again” is a call for genocide against 93 million people in Iran, an overt violation of international and federal law, and every moral code known to humanity.
Proud to support the @1ACommittee rally in DC led by Jane Fonda & feat. Joan Baez, challenging “censorship, political intimidation, and a growing effort to reshape American history and cultural life through fear and attacks on our First Amendment.”
👀📺: https://t.co/q55n7xT0do
PCJF ED Mara Verheyden-Hilliard tells WPR: a plan for a foreign corp to create a fund for policing protests @ Line 5 "incentivizes repression against people exercising their First Amend rights", posing a direct threat to constitutional rights & due process https://t.co/efG06lm8Os
1/ 📣 TAKE ACTION: Tell DOJ to withdraw a dangerous new proposal that seeks to shield federal prosecutors from accountability.
Trump’s Justice Dept has proposed a new rule that would subvert state ethics investigations into misconduct by its lawyers. 🧵
4/ People are in court challenging unconstitutional govt conduct & facing repression for exercising their First Amend rights. The DOJ must not be allowed to operate without independent ethics oversight.
📣FIRST AMENDMENT VICTORY: All charges have been dismissed against our client, US Army veteran Jay Carey, who the Trump Admin vindictively prosecuted in federal court for burning a flag in Lafayette Park in protest of the President’s Executive Order targeting flag-burning.🧵