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March 3, 2026

The Supreme Court building, with statue in the foreground

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at March 3, 2026

DRAD Joins Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Overbroad Geofence Warrants

Defending Rights & Dissent joined with Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), along with the Brennan Center for Justice and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, calling on the Supreme Court to reject an overbroad geofence warrant that was used to gather

February 28, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at February 28, 2026

Defending Rights & Dissent Statement on Trump’s Unconstitutional Iran Strikes

The following statement can be attributed to Chip Gibbons, Policy Director, Defending Rights & Dissent, in response to this morning’s U.S. attacks on Iran: Trump’s aggression this morning against Iran is unconstitutional, unlawful, and immoral. The Constitution is clear Congress

February 23, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at February 23, 2026

Nonprofit Coalition Asks Courts to Prevent Coercive Federal Investigation Tactics

Defending Rights & Dissent joins seventeen nonprofit organizations, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, in filing an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from conducting a retaliatory

February 10, 2026

Gaza encampment protests at Columbia University, which has been within the crosshairs of the House Ed Committee

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at February 10, 2026

Rümeysa Öztürk Deportation Proceedings Terminated

The following statement can be attributed to Chip Gibbons, Policy Director of Defending Rights & Dissent, in response to news that deportation proceedings against Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk have been terminated: “The Trump administration arrested, detained, and attempted to deport

February 9, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at February 9, 2026

Event: FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter, Experts React

Last month, FBI agents raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson and seized her computers and phone, ransacking her possessions in violation of the Privacy Act and threatening press freedom. Although Natanson was not the subject of the

February 6, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at February 6, 2026

Jacobin Interview: Chip Gibbons on Press Freedom, Seth Harp, and CIA Blowback

Defending Rights & Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons joined Jacobin Magazine’s weekly news program for a discussion of two of Chip’s recent pieces in the magazine, covering the blowback incurred by the CIA’s death squads as well as a Congressional

January 30, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 30, 2026

Don Lemon Arrested Over MN Protest Reporting

Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been arrested by federal agents this morning, in connection with their reporting on a protest that took place inside a St. Paul church earlier this month. Contrary to the disinformation circulating on social

January 27, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 27, 2026

More than 1,000 orgs: No funds for ICE & CBP

In response to federal agents killing U.S. citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this weekend, just weeks after agents killed Renee Nicole Good only a few blocks away, amid a massive crackdown on both immigration and protesters of ICE raids, Defending

January 24, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 24, 2026

Federal agents kill U.S citizen in Minneapolis

Defending Rights & Dissent issued the following statement in response to news of federal agents killing a man in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. We have seen the horrific video of federal agents beating and needlessly shooting a U.S. citizen

January 15, 2026

Published by Nathan Fuller at January 15, 2026

“The FBI’s raid of a journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding”

Yesterday, FBI agents raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson and seized her computers and phone, ransacking her possessions in violation of the Privacy Act and threatening press freedom. The raid is another reminder of the lengths the

January 13, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 13, 2026

Press Freedom Groups Demand Congress Rescind Subpoena of Investigative Journalist

Defending Rights & Dissent led more than 20 other leading press freedom and First Amendment groups, including the ACLU, PEN America, the National Writers Union, Reporters without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, in

January 7, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 7, 2026

Journalist Seth Harp Subpoenaed Over “Doxxing” Allegations

A motion introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., today to subpoena journalist Seth Harp passed unanimously in the House Oversight Committee. Luna accused Harp of “leaking classified intel about Operation Absolute Resolve, including doxxing a Delta Force commander.” The

January 7, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 7, 2026

ICE kills woman in Minneapolis

Defending Rights & Dissent staff has reviewed a video showing an ICE agent shooting and killing a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. The video analyzed by our staff shows the individual, who was possibly a community observer, was attempting to drive

January 6, 2026

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at January 6, 2026

Event: Legal Experts on Trump’s Venezuela Invasion

Trump has invaded Venezuela, ousted and abducted its president, and announced the U.S. is “running the country.” In the process he’s violating both U.S. Constitution–which gives Congress the power to authorize war–and international law. On January 7th, Defending Rights &

December 18, 2025

Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at December 18, 2025

War Powers Bills Fail in House but Narrow Margins Deny Trump Mandate for War

Defending Rights & Dissent supported two War Powers Resolutions that would have asserted Congress’s constitutional war powers against Trump’s march to war, and we mobilized thousands to write their reps to support these bills. The House voted on both resolutions