The poll shows a disconnect between the Trump administration’s targeting of universities and an American public that sees them as key to scientific research, new ideas and innovative technology.
Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.
Reason and common sense are guiding decisions again as the school board turns to teachers and administrators – not right-wing Christian groups or Moms for Liberty – to regulate classrooms and school policy.
“I believe that this is part of a strategy to preempt opposition to Republican policies and encourage self-censorship,” said Indiana University Professor Beth Gazley.
The legislation allows the Treasury Secretary to arbitrarily label any organization (like nonprofits, news outlets, universities) as a “terrorist supporter” without providing any justification or evidence.
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
“Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) have been the scourge of ordinary citizens who dared to take a public stance for far too long,” writes Civil Rights Lawyer Garen Meguerian. This historic legislation changes that.
If Thomas gets his way, we could see more SLAPP suits from public figures like Jim Worthington and a muzzling of the Fourth Estate.
Garen Meguerian talked to Bucks County’s Raging Chicken Press podcast about his three-part series on how defamation lawsuits can be used as weaponized tools of censorship.
Swegal hopes his movie will be a conversation starter that challenges viewers to feel empathy.
It’s unclear if Bucks County Sheriff’s deputies were involved.
“For a long time, people saw white supremacist politics and white nationalism as on the fringe of American politics. It has now become the mainstream of the American right, whose central foundation is within the Republican Party,” said Marc Morial, president of the Urban League.
“The DOJ seems dead set on acquiring personal information on voters, including driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth — records that are highly protected under federal law and under state law and which state election officials are sworn to protect,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“In Pennsylvania, our current law puts regulations around abortion care in the criminal code, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Health care is not a crime,” said State Senator Amanda Cappelletti.
