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August 15, 2017

ACLU of Virginia Board Member Resigns over ACLU Defense of White Supremacists
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A board member of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties
Union has resigned in the wake of this weekend's white supremacist
violence in Charlottesville. Waldo Jaquith tweeted, "I just resigned
from the ACLU of Virginia board. What's legal and what's right are
sometimes different. I won't be a fig leaf for Nazis." Ahead of this
weekend's white supremacist rally, the ACLU represented rally organizer
Jason Kessler on free speech grounds in a case against the city of
Charlottesville, which was trying to revoke the permit for the event.


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