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- Members of Congress have snuck a dangerous provision into their new tax bill that would give the executive branch the power to effectively shut down any non-profit organization. Tell your representative NOW to oppose this provision and protect our right to free speech.
- Moments before an immigration court hearing in Mahmoud Khalil's case, our lawyers were abruptly banned from using laptops in the courtroom — but the government's lawyers weren't. No one should be denied the basic tools they need to defend themselves in court.
- No one should be detained at the airport for their political speech.
- NEW: We sent a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. raising serious concerns with the proposed creation of a national autism "registry." Data collection on autistic people could be ripe for abuse, and the government shouldn’t be shutting disabled people out of the conversation.
- NEW: We asked the government to clarify how the National Endowment for the Arts will implement an executive order preventing federal agencies from using funds to promote so-called "gender ideology." The NEA cannot censor our artistic expression.
- Our client Rümeysa Öztürk spent the last 6 weeks in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana — all in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored. On Saturday, she finally made it home to her beloved Tufts community, where she can resume her studies and begin teaching again as her case proceeds.
- Rümeysa Öztürk speaks after her release from ICE detention and return to Massachusetts. We'll keep pushing for freedom and justice for Rümeysa and other scholars like her who've been targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights.
- This weekend we're celebrating all of the moms who support their children without condition, exactly as they are.
- Dr. Noor Abdalla will be spending her first Mother's Day as a mom without her husband Mahmoud Khalil, who is still locked up hundreds of miles away from her in ICE detention. He should be holding his son who he hasn't met yet, but he is instead detained without due process by the U.S. government.
- The Trump administration is threatening to arrest Congress members who were performing their oversight duties. Targeting elected officials for opposing the president's agenda is straight out of authoritarian playbooks. We won't allow Trump and DHS to intimidate us into submission.
