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Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules

The Trump Administration 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

International and domestic human rights legal organizations issued a letter to the government demanding an immediate cessation of the violations of human rights against peace activists in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Defending American peace and anti-war activists staying inside the Venezuelan Embassy in D.C. to protect it from illegal seizure

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has been defending the rights of the Embassy Protection Collective made up of U.S. peace and anti-war activists inside the Venezuelan Embassy.

PCJF Demands Police Stop Facilitating Mob Violence at Venezuelan Embassy

Right-wing mobs have been assailing the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the people inside and outside the Embassy who are part of the Embassy Protection Collective.

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

Civil Rights lawsuit filed against the Museum of the Bible after egregious racial profiling, illegal detention and interrogation, and false reporting to the FBI.

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

FAIR’s Janine Jackson interviewed Mara Verheyden-Hilliard about Trump’s new anti-protest rules for CounterSpin.

FAIR’s Counterspin Radio interviews Mara Verheyden-Hilliard about protest suppression

From Counterspin Radio: “If it’s a new day, you’re right to ask if the Trump administration is coming for your rights in a new way, and the answer is yes."

Courthouse News Service: Trump Planning Tough New Rules for Protests Near White House

A proposal by the National Parks Service that could limit protests near iconic landmarks in the nation’s capital is drawing heavy criticism

Bloomberg: “Get Off My Lawn: Trump Proposal Could Squelch Protests in D.C.”

The Trump administration is seeking to restrict protests by effectively blocking them along the north sidewalk of the White House and making it easier for police to shut them down.

The American Prospect: Will the Next Women’s March Be Taxed?

A National Park Service plan to impose harsh new fines and restrictions on public protesters takes Donald Trump’s assault on the First Amendment to a whole new level.

PCJF Op-Ed in the Washington Post: Trump admin wants to tax protests. What happened to free speech?

The Washington Post published an op-ed written by the PCJF’s Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Legal Director Carl Messineo challenging the Trump administration’s new and outrageous plan to charge demonstrators fees a to protest in the nation’s capital.

PCJF Statement on Proposal to Give Nazis Private Metro Service for Unite the Right Rally

The following statement by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights attorney with the PCJF, on the proposal to provide private Metro cars for “Unite the Right” rally was released to the press today.