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Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

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The ACLU's Long-Term Strategy

In 1924, the ACLU was calling for a statute eliminating judicial review. It did it because it thought that doing so would prove how hypocritical the courts were and that that would in fact drum up support for court curbing legislation as late as 1924. In part because the great colon steel strikes fail because labor is suppressed because important injunctions are issued. Eventually the leadership comes to the conclusion that imminent change is not happening. And so they turn to a long-term strategy.

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