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Ruling advances lawsuit against S.F. over arrests during 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb The ruling allows approximately 113 people — including 81 minors — who were arrested on 17th Street on July 8, 2023, to join the lawsuit first filed by four teenagers in December 2023.

The ruling allows approximately 113 people — including 81 minors — who were arrested on 17th Street on July 8, 2023, to join the lawsuit first filed by four teenagers in December 2023.

Dolores Park ‘hill bomb’ victims can sue as a group, judge rules The judge's ruling is a significant win for those detained in the 2023 mass arrests following the San Francisco skateboarding event.

JUST IN: Those arrested in the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb can sue as a group, a judge ruled.

It's a significant win for the 113 in the mass arrest by San Francisco police, letting them join a class-action lawsuit against the city.

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Army veteran who burned American flag near White House pleads not guilty to federal charges

UPDATE: Jay Carey, the Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on flag burning, has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges.

'Our First Amendment rights are sacrosanct' | Veteran to ask judge to throw out charges for burning flag in protest near White House Jay Carey, 54, of Arden, North Carolina, faces two misdemeanor counts for violating burning restrictions on federal property.

Jay Carey, the North Carolina veteran facing criminal charges for burning an American flag near the White House last month, says President Trump violated his oath by trying to restrict free speech.

"Our First Amendment rights are sacrosanct," Carey said. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

The PCJF is defending Jay Carey; Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard spoke to @starsandstripes.bsky.social:

“If the administration seeks to charge Mr. Carey based on the unconstitutional exhortations of the executive order, then it will be challenged."

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Like in LA, federal grand juries in DC are rejecting federal prosecutors' attempts to bring punitive and baseless felony charges in service to federal imposition of police state tactics. (3/3)

The USAO had also just failed in three attempts to get a felony assault indictment against a woman who was arrested while filming fed enforcement. (2/3)

For the second time in recent days, Pirro's office has failed in high profile efforts to secure felony assault indictments from a federal Grand Jury in DC. This time the GJ rejected outrageous felony assault charges against the man accused of throwing a sandwich. (1/3)

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Trump's just-issued Executive Order directing the DoD to create a specialized National Guard unit as an occupying force in D.C. deputized to carry out law enforcement is not about "public safety." This is the march to militarize America's cities, destroying and subverting democracy.

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PCJF Condemns Trump’s Militarized Takeover of D.C. as an Unlawful Prototype of a Police State  - Partnership for Civil Justice Fund The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund issued the following statement from its executive director, constitutional rights litigator Mara

STATEMENT: PCJF Condemns Trump’s Militarized Takeover of D.C. as an Unlawful Prototype of a Police State

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“The Administration's authoritarian imposition of federal and military personnel into the District's streets coupled with the federalization of the police department is an effort to impose a prototype police state in Washington, D.C."

- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the PCJF