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August 18, 2017

In Wake of Charlottesville, ACLU Rethinks Defending Armed Hate Groups
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In other fallout from Saturday's white supremacist march in
Charlottesville, the American Civil Liberties Union has announced it
will no longer defend hate groups seeking to march with firearms. The
ACLU has faced criticism-even from many of its own members-for helping
organizers of the Unite the Right rally to secure a protest permit after
the city of Charlottesville tried to block the rally. Earlier in the
week, Waldo Jaquith, a board member of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU,
resigned after the deadly violence in Charlottesville.


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