Samantha Bee Talks To ACLU 'Heroic Freedom Nerd' About His Crazy Weekend

What was this weekend really like?

onFebruary 2, 2017 at 4:13 PMFebruary 2, 2017 at 3:59 PM

The ACLU is having a helluva week. With the hasty implementation of Donald Trump’s immigration executive order, the need for the ACLU has never been clearer. They’re suddenly on the front lines of protecting American democracy, and the donations (and Y Combinator funding) has followed.

But for the attorneys on the front lines, what was this weekend really like? Samantha Bee talks to the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt, whom she dubs a “heroic freedom nerd,” to get the scoop. Watch below to find out how bad the constitutional crisis may get.

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Morning Docket: 04.24.24

* Wait, are you suggesting we shouldn’t have trusted the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer? This Trump trial teaches us something new every day! [Reuters]

* Outgoing Boeing leadership collecting around $45 million as they walk out the door. The existing door, not one blown out the side of one of their planes. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Supreme Court to hear yet another case of women placed in life-threatening peril because of Dobbs. This time it implicates a Ronald Reagan law, so let’s see how quickly the principled conservatives throw the Gipper under the bus and then back over him. [CNN]

* DOJ offers up $139 million to Larry Nassar victims over the FBI’s multiple levels of failure in putting a stop to the abuse. [Law360]

* Deep dive into Latham’s work to change NYC property taxes, where poor neighborhoods pay upwards of three times higher tax rates than more affluent ones. [Litigation Daily]

* The Washington Post wrote an editorial about the homelessness case. It’s as if they didn’t bother to figure out the basic facts of the homelessness case. [Balls and Strikes]

* Columbia law professors raise concerns over university’s handling of protest. [Intercept]

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