Martin (Georgia Anti-Boycott) – Amended Complaint 2020
The PCJF and the Council on American-Islamic Relations represented filmmaker Abby Martin in the case of Martin v. Wrigley, a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s anti-BDS law…
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Lafayette Square Was Just the Beginning: Trump and Barr Turn to the “Occupy Model” to Crush Protests Against Police Brutality
The Nation Magazine turns to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on how the current administration is using the “Occupy Model” to in efforts to crush the burgeoning racial justice movement.
Martin (Georgia Anti-Boycott) – Complaint 2020
The PCJF and Council on American-Islamic Relations represented filmmaker Abby Martin in the case of Martin v. Wrigley, a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that banned state contracts with people and entities that boycott Israel.
BREAKING – PCJF: Civil Rights Groups to Announce Federal Free Speech Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Unconstitutional ‘Israel Boycott’ Law
PCJF and CAIR plan to sue the University System of Georgia in federal court over a state law restricting First Amendment activity.
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 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.
Stopping Trump’s Plan to Crush Protest in the Nation’s Capital
In 2018, at the same time the Trump administration and other proponents of bigotry, repression, and environmental devastation ratcheted up their verbal attacks against a protest against them, they took concrete actions to shut down free speech actions in Washington, D.C. In rapid-response, PCJF then led a national organizing, education, and outreach campaign bringing together organizations and grassroots groups across the country, that resulted in more than 140,000 comments to the formal record.
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.
The Intercept: With Last Charges Against J20 Protesters Dropped, Defendants Seek Accountability For Prosecutors
Last Friday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia dismissed charges against the 39 remaining J20 Inauguration Day protesters under indictment.
US drops charges against remaining J20 anti-Trump defendants
Charges against last 39 people arrested over their alleged involvement in a Trump Inauguration Day rally were dismissed, per Al Jazeera News.