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Huge Free Speech Victory: Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules

Posted in News · October 29, 2019 2:15 PM
In an extraordinary victory for the people, the Trump Administration has announced that it is fully withdrawing its massive anti-democratic plan to block free speech and assembly through proposed regulations that would have crushed protest on federal land in the nation's capital.

Human Rights Legal Organizations Demand Immediate End to U.S. Violations of Law and Siege at Venezuelan Embassy

Posted in News · May 13, 2019 12:40 AM
International and domestic human rights legal organizations have issued a letter to the State Department, the Secret Service and other officials demanding an immediate cessation of the violations of human rights committed against the peace activists lawfully in the Venezuelan Embassy.

PCJF Demands Police Stop Facilitating Mob Violence at Venezuelan Embassy

Posted in Documents · May 05, 2019 12:09 PM
PCJF Demands Police Stop Facilitating Mob Violence at Venezuelan Embassy

PCJF Opposes Trump's Dept of Interior Plan to Obstruct Access to Public Information

Posted in Documents · January 30, 2019 11:57 AM
PCJF filed a challenge to Trump's Dept. of Interior plan to obstruct access to public information; calls proposed FOIA rules an "Obstructive Shell Game" and a "Political Gatekeeping Maneuver."

PCJF Sues Hobby Lobby-affiliated Museum of the Bible for Race Discrimination, Visitor Profiling

Posted in News · January 17, 2019 3:54 PM
"Our client's visit to the Bible Museum turned into a Kafkaesque ordeal of humiliation, detention, interrogation and ultimately an FBI counter-terrorism investigation caused by the Museum's racist actions and false reporting," stated PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard.

‘They’re Going to Pen You In and Charge You for It’

Posted in Multimedia · October 24, 2018 7:11 PM
Janine Jackson interviewed Mara Verheyden-Hilliard about Trump’s proposed new anti-protest rules for FAIR's CounterSpin. Read more

Standing Rock: First Amended Complaint Filed to Vindicate Constitutional Rights of Water Protectors

Posted in News · February 12, 2018 1:23 PM
On the night of November 20, 2016 law enforcement unleashed specialty impact munitions, explosive grenades, chemical agents, and water cannons in freezing temperatures injuring and maiming water protectors engaged in peaceful First Amendment-protected protest activities and prayer circles. We are proud to be part of the civil team litigating this case.

Trump Hotel Documents Hidden from Public View

Posted in News · November 08, 2017 2:43 PM
After months of denial and stonewalling by the General Service Administration (GSA), the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has uncovered through painstaking and persistent litigation that certain government communications between the GSA and the Trump Organization negotiating terms of the arrangements for the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue have been kept outside agency records, on private email. Read more

Interview: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on the Police-State Crackdown on the Left

Posted in Multimedia · November 08, 2017 2:39 PM
The Empire Files' Abby Martin sat down recently with PCJF's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard to discuss assaults on civil liberties taking place around the country.

D.C. Police Spent $300,000 On Weapons, Equipment For Inauguration

Posted in Press Coverage · November 01, 2017 1:31 PM
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: "Police often seem to use these [National Special Security Events], at least in past years, as an opportunity to requisition all manner of new weapons and gear ... It's a spending spree for them, and they can legitimize it by saying 'The demonstrators are coming to town.'" Read more

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