Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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CHARLESTON, WV – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against the United States Secret Service and Greg Jenkins, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of White House Advance, on behalf of a West Virginia couple who were arrested at a Fourth of July presidential appearance at the state Capitol because they were wearing t-shirts critical of the president.

“This is a simple case,” said ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Chris Hansen, who is the lead counsel in the case. “Two Americans went to see their president and to express their disagreement with his policies respectfully and peacefully. They were arrested at the direction of federal officials. That is precisely what the First Amendment was adopted to prevent.”

http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=16441&c=86