Civil Rights Group Challenges Buffer Zone that Restricts Free Speech at New Trump International Hotel PCJF sues D.C. and federal government to force release of…
By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of the PCJF Originally published on Alternet The events of the past week have placed the country at a decisive moment.…
Excerpt from Washington Times Cleveland’s security plans for the Republican National Convention include the deployment of more than 3,000 police officers, but security experts and…
D.C. defended their restrictive postering regulations in this supplemental brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Read the document below
The PCJF argues in this brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the District’s postering regulations are content-based and a…
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Judge Lamberth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted part of the PCJF’s motion for summary judgment and declared portions of…
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Chip Gibbons, Defending Dissent Legal Fellow, are interviewed on KPFA about the government’s spying on peaceful protest.
FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of thePartnership for Civil Justice Fund For a…
FOIA documents obtained by the PCJF expose that the FBI abused counter-terrorism authority to surveil School of Americas Watch, a pacifist organization focused on ending…
Reprinted from The Guardian The creation of a new counter-terrorism unit within the NYPD, which will be armed with “machine guns” and tasked with policing protests as…
Scattered protests shut down traffic around the District for a third day Monday, with demonstrators lying in roadways and blocking highways to protest the grand…