Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
The Dig
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The ACLU and the First Amendment
In the 1930s, New Dealers launched a frontal assault on the federal courts. To deflect such measures, conservatives appropriated ACLU's sporadic legal victories as evidence of benefits of judicial review. Even as the ACLU laid the groundwork for this huge advance in labor rights, they also quote, ironically helped preserve liberal legalism at the very time it proved most vulnerable.
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