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Lawyers to protesters: “We’ve got your back.”

• The National Lawyers Guild are preparing to offer free legal assistance for Inauguration Day protesters. 
  
• In a statement, the NLG revealed that they will organize a “mass defense infrastructure” for Inauguration Day and the Women’s March. 
  
• This infrastructure will be made up of:
  
• Legal observers who will observe and document events that take place during the protest.
• A jail support team who will track arrests and support people as they’re released.
• And Washington, D.C.-barred lawyers, who will support arrestees and make jail visits.
• “Tens of thousands of people are answering the call to resist the incoming administration at inaugural protests next weekend,” Maggie Ellinger-Locke, D.C. NLG Mass Defense Chair, said in the statement. “
  
• As always, the NLG is mobilizing its dedicated team of radical lawyers, legal workers and law students to provide the critical legal support infrastructure needed for such large-scale demonstrations.” Read more
  

Amazing how this country has a “leader” that will enforce the Second Amendment but not the First Amendment.

(via dragonsatmidnight)