A guest from a leading public policy institute joins the hosts of “We Dissent” to tackle a scary topic: the recent assault of the U.S. government on nonprofit organizations.
On Episode 54, Brennan Center for Justice’s Rachel Levinson-Waldman speaks with FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Legal Director Rebecca Markert and National Women’s Law Center Director of Nominations & Democracy Alison Gill about the Trump administration and Congress’ weaponization of the government to attack nonprofits and punish speech and viewpoints they don’t like. Then, the speakers explore how executive orders and anti-terrorism statutes are being abused to investigate, defund and intimidate civil society — and how this strategy is essential to the broader project of transforming the United States from a democracy to an autocracy.
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