Protect the Protest Statement on Energy Transfer v Greenpeace International et al SLAPP Verdict
“The verdict against Greenpeace is a threat to the fundamental right to free speech & protest.” The Protect the Protest Coalition, of which we are…
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An Open Letter from Civil Rights Groups to the American People
Our Rights Are at Stake. We Will Not Be Silenced. In America, our government cannot do whatever it wants. And we, the people, have a…
PCJF Statement on the verdict against Greenpeace
This week’s verdict against Greenpeace in the lawsuit brought by oil giant Energy Transfer Partners is a profound attack on First Amendment rights and the…
Empire Files Interviews Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction
Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and constitutional lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard speaks with Empire Files host Abby Martin about the detention and attempt to deport U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestine speech.
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PCJF Statement on Mahmoud Khalil’s Unlawful Arrest and Abduction
The Trump Administration is pursuing an unconstitutional witch hunt, abusing government authority in order to target, punish and silence viewpoints that it ideologically opposes.
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After student protester sued UC Santa Cruz, campus police seized her phone
Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full article here. A UC Santa Cruz student and pro-Palestinian activist whose cell phone was seized by…
Trump says he wants to protect free speech. Advocates say he’s undermining it.
In what President Donald Trump says is a move to protect the rule of law and free speech advocates see as an attack on it, the White House is promising tougher punishments for vandalizing public monuments, statues and religious displays.
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PCJF challenges Trump’s Executive Order targeting pro-Palestinian protestors as “racist and unhinged” attack on free speech
The Trump Administration’s Executive Order targeting by viewpoint those who have courageously stood against the U.S. backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people is a racist and unhinged assault on the fundamental constitutional right to free speech.
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PCJF Staff Attorney & former Marine Nick Place spoke to Empire Files’ Mike Prysner on domestic deployment of US military
"Troops actually on the ground, really need to ask themselves if they’ll get the same leeway as Trump and his billionaire bosses for executing the orders Trump gives from the golf course."
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Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College: Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself.’
Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the…
New Motions Demand the Court Dismiss Charges and Disqualify DA Brooke Jenkins in GG26 Case
The legal team for 26 activists who were arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge in April filed a motion in San Francisco’s superior court today,…
Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests
Today, The Center for Protest Law & Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh filed a lawsuit against the University…