Marjorie Heins is the author of Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge, examining the roots of free speech by teachers as a special concern of the US constitution, and the lessons we can learn from the way these rights were compromised badly during the McCarthy Era. Through decades of work as a civil rights lawyer, Marjorie carries a passion and deep insight into the ways our rights are, or are not, protected by our government.
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge
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By "horse-trading", says Marjorie Heins, that's how the Supreme Court makes its decisions!
Marjorie Heins shares about her work as an ACLU lawyer, working on such things as policy brutality, free expression in art, and other 1st amendment rights.
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