“We believe that this is a significant victory for free speech. They are doing this under threat of litigation,” Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the fund’s executive director, said in a telephone interview.

New York Times covers the struggle over permits for free speech activity during Trump's Inauguration

Tom Sherwood reflects on the difficulties protest groups are having in securing permits to exercise their free speech rights.

NPR report covers efforts by the PCJF and others to assert their right to free speech and dissent during the Inauguration

At the PCJF, we stand with all those who are taking those steps forward - steps together - to face down what is coming, to protect those who are most vulnerable, and to make it clear that the people themselves are the force to be reckoned with.

Attorneys from the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund along with activists organizing demonstrations during and after Donald Trump's Inauguration held a press conference this morning demanding access to sites in Washington, D.C., for protests.

"Everybody is being put on hold and they are being put off which completely obstructs the ability to organize, to make plans to come, disruptive and violating people's free speech rights.”

“People are coming to Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day to exercise their free speech rights in opposition to racism, misogyny and bigotry. But the government wants to stage-manage democracy.”

ABC7 Local News covers the legal battle over the right to protest at Trump's Inauguration.