what's the aclu's position on having dhillon in this job right now? >> first, thank you for asking me to join you. at the aclu we don't endorse or oppose nominees for politically- a - appointed offices, but we're aware the doj civil rights division plays a critical role in defending the most critical rights and freedoms and eric holder once called it the jewel of the justice department for good reason. the division has been at the forefront of efforts to dismantle systemic racism, to promote voting rights and voting access, and to defend marginalized groups from discriminatory practices and during president trump's first administration he really did stack the justice department with people who turned back the clock on civil rights forcements and that could ring true in his second administration as well. with this nominee the positions i understand she's taken in recent years in regards to vulnerable and marginalized communities, transgender people, voters of color, as well as her support of lawsuits challenging the 2020 election are all deeply concern

the aclu has an affiliate in every single state in this country.s have close relationships with their governors, their attorneys general, the legislatures, the mayors in cities. so we've been working together to build out a firewall to protect people's rights and liberties at the state and city level. and then finally, there are millions of grassroots supporters all across the country. we've been holding trainings. we have hundreds and hundreds of people coming to these weekly trainings to learn about what we can anticipate from a trump administration and start to get ready to fight back. >> can you talk a little bit about the states and the firewall, what is it, the firewalls of freedom. what does that mean when you're partnering with states. i assume most of them are blue states or blue state representatives, governor, mayor, et cetera, is that how you create bulwarks against trump's most draconian policies? >> on a practical level it's giving them the tools that they need to resist. to say, no, our state's or city's resources are not going to be

the aclu has an affiliate in every single state in this country.nors, their attorneys general, the legislatures, the mayors in cities, so we have been working together to build out a firewall to protect people's rights and liberties at the state and city level. and then finally, there are millions of grassroots supporters. all across the country. we have been holding trainings, we have hundreds and hundreds of people coming to these weekly trainings to learn about what we can anticipate from a trump administration and start to get ready to fight back. >> can you talk a little bit about the states and the firewall -- what is it, the firewall is a freedom? what does that mean when you say you are partnering with states, obviously most of them are blue state governors, mayors, et cetera, is advising them on how to create bulwarks against some of trump's most draconian policies? what does that mean on a practical level? >> exactly, on a practical level, it is giving them the tools they need to resist, to say no, our state where our cities resources are

i'm codirector of the lgbtq project at the aclu and counsel of record on behalf of -- i will just say i am so honored to represent my clients. i'm so honored to represent transgender adolescents and their parents who spent years how to -- thinking about how to best take care of their suffering children, made decisions that were best for their families with the recommendation of their doctors, only to have those decisions overridden and displaced by the government of tennessee. today we were able to stand before this court and say the constitution protects trans people just like it protects everyone else. it is breaking no new ground to recognize that when you are prohibited from receiving something because of your sex, it is the role of the court to ensure that the government can satisfy the burden of showing it has a good reason for doing so. tennessee did not meet their burden. this law we believe is unconstitutional and perhaps the scariest thing for all of us is that tennessee's arguments would apply if congress tomorrow band -- they claim there are no protections based on sex for

with less than a month before inauguration day, the aclu says it's ready.f advocacy and information officer. it's great to have you here. tell us something good. dierdre, first of all, trump is preparing for the largest deportation operation in american history, and i wonder how you guys are thinking about a battle which could be of epic proportions? how are you preparing? >> thanks for having me. really glad to be here to talk about this. trump starts talking about criminals and immediately moves to talking about deporting 20 million people, which is, in fact, double the estimated number of people who are actually undocumented in our country. and the aclu has been preparing on three fronts. first, of course, our litigation front. and i just want to remind you that during trump's first administration the aclu filed more than 400 legal actions against the trump administration and was successful in many of them even arguing before trump appointed judges. so we are confident in our litigation team's prowess and ability to meet this moment. second is what we're

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but the aclu can't do it alone.democracy and the freedoms we hold dear. so please join us. call or go online to myaclu.org today. thank you. >>> senate republicans are not following donald trump's orders. three weeks ago, donald trump gave an order to senate republicans, "no more judges confirmed before inauguration day," donald trump wrote on november 19th. senate majority leader chuck schumer got two more biden appointed federal judges confirmed in the senate tonight. that makes five federal judges confirmed just this week, and a total of 12 confirmed since donald trump ordered republicans to somehow stop the confirmation process, and dozens of republican senators have been voting for some of these nominees. the hill reports two federal judges appointed by president obama and clinton decided not to retire, after the presidential election. senator sheldon whitehouse is back with us. senator, i take this as a very interesting sign about the republican capacity in the senate to define the donald trump. >> yeah, and a

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but the aclu can't do it alone.nd the freedoms we hold dear. so please join us. call or go online to myaclu.org today. thank you. >>> we had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. those ballots shouldn't have been counted. we had -- >> where is the evidence of that? >> dana, there is plenty of evidence, you can find it -- i'm happy to send it to your team. the problem is the media won't cover it. and -- >> we covered this extensively. >> these monsters in the press, i shouldn't even call them the press. let's defund the press, the media. >> yeah. >> defund the media. >> maybe we can get them a uniform and send them to afghanistan. >> that would be great. i'm going to not only be the governor of arizona for four years, i'm going to do two terms, be your worst freaking nightmare for eight years and we will reform the media as well. >> she seems nice too. kari lake didn't win, she lost, she did not become governor, despite her refusal to concede her 2022 loss, she didn't become senator either because she lost again.

but the aclu can't do it alone.mocracy and the freedoms we hold dear. so please join us. call or go online to myaclu.org today. thank you. >>> special counsel jack smith has dropped the federal election interference case and the classified documents case against trump. smith stressed that his decision was not about the strength of his cases, rather his reasoning hung on the justice department's belief that the constitution prohibits prosecutions of sitting presidents. special counsel plans to release a final report as required by law on his investigations. attorney general merrick garland is expected to publicly release it as he has with past special counsel reports. with us now, former federal prosecutor and legal analyst, kristy greenberg. good morning. >> there's been a whole lot of noise, and excited utterances about the melt down of these cases on the heels of the election and what that may mean. i thought barbara mcquade, our friend, said something very interesting, she noted, quote, smith's brief contains ano

with me now, deputy director of the aclus immigrants rights project lee gilert.enship for the children of undocumented parents. he says he wants to do it with executive order. obviously right now he probably would not be able to get the constitutional amendment needed or changed for him to do that. the other legal way. can he actually do this as quickly as he claims with executive order? >> no, we think it would be patently illegal and there will be legal challenges across the country to it. the supreme court has said over a century ago if you're born on u.s. soil you're a citizen pursuant to the 14th amendment. so i think that, it's not legal, we hope the courts will adhere to that precedent. and so we'll have to see but it sounds like he's going to try and we're ready for that. >> how do you see this playing out in court if he does attempt it? >> you know, i hope the lower courts will say to a supreme court precedent and they will strike it down. and then, we'll see whether the trump administration tries to take it all the way to the supreme court. we're clear

first of all, i had written an article with another aclu will later explaining why we believe the aclu'sfree speech including for sexually explicit speech and other controversial speech was actually beneficial to women. same point that had been made by the women's rights project. she counters by listing the kinds of expression that have resulted from aclu and other defense, supreme court enforcement of free speech in terms of the negative impact on women. she refers to sexual harassment, nonconsensual pornography, doc sang, deepfake corn -- porn. she goes on to say that these kinds of expressions silence women as a group. she says, we have to ask the question, how much of women's art, literal, teacher, leadership have we lost because of misogynistic abuse? and says, we have to ask that question. i agree with her. we have to ask that question. on the others, i think she and those who come down in favor of constricting free-speech don't ask another at least as essential question which is, how have women benefited by free-speech? i think your paper is a wonderful contribution to what i hope

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can the aclu help these people? how is it going to happen in terms of the rollout of these plans for donald trump? >> yeah. so, we will be doing everything we possibly can with our partners out there but i think it's going to take more than just coordination. i think it's going to take communities pushing back, states and local governments pushing back, religious organizations pushing back. to be clear, it's not just a political thing. we need to protect peoples' lives. what i saw during the first term is that people said wait, i didn't know he could come after my son's custodian in the school. my son's custodian is such a nice guy. when you talk about mass deportation, it goes well beyond national security threats or very serious criminals. i think that's what's going to happen. we will be pushing back in the court and trying to organize people on the ground as well. >> you know, lee, we've got people like california ag saying we're not going to do this. we are going to stand strong and protect our california citiz

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in place, commercially reasonable ones so that there is at least i another barrier. >> laura: the aclu statement, "the law was unconstitutional because it makes adults think twice about exercising first amendment right.se i" this is hilarious argument and i wish i were arguing the case and the court. about britney, in the 'and ids was girls gone wild, that was in the 90s. watch. >> it blew my mind what joe francis was able to convince these young girls to do.ever >> i wouldn't be where i was. >> i never thought that would come back and haunt me for 20 years. >> laura: brittni, it is now 2024 and look at where and howt. far we have sunk from that low point. brittni, what to parents need to know tonight how t easy it is to get porn in the hands of young people on the internet?ic >> you know, anybody can go onck any pornography website and are you 18, you click enter and you ardia e on porn. m but hashtags and ads that appeay on youtube, porn is easilyee accessible and i stand for age verification because we need to protect young children. >> laura: brittni, tell us telabout your own stor

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now teens who have been affected by this the aclu and the biden administration all argue that this banmounts to unconstitutional sex discrimination. because if you were born a boy and you want access to testosterone treatment, you can get it, but you can't get it if you're born a boy and you want to transition to a girl. now, the state of tennessee says it's not sex based discrimination because it doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl. you can't get this medical treatment to transition. so today, the justices had a lot of questions for both sides. but we were watching really closely some of the potential swing votes that the aclu and the biden administration would need to overturn this ban. for example chief justice john roberts. let's take a listen to what he said here, it seems to me that the medical issues are much more heavily involved than in many of the cases that you you look to. >> and, of course, we are not the best situated to address issues like that unlike in, you know, like morales and craig and some of the other ones where it doesn't strike me that they're intensely af

i know you are acutely aware of the fact that the aclu is coming out against this texas law supportings like porn hub, saying that we're a less restrictive alternative exists for example the voluntary installation of filtering software on devices the government cannot impose age verification on adults in the name of protecting children. peter, your reaction tonight? >> hi, laura, it's good to be with you. it's ridiculous. that's my reaction. the american people are fed up with the most dangerous material in the world being available to children 24/7 through our connected technology. and that's why the texas legislature did what it did when it passed house bill 118118 other states as well. age verification just makes sense, a child in the united states right now can't go into a brick and mortar retail store, like a walmart, and purchase sexually graphic material. purchase pornography. they can't go into a bookstore and purchase pornography. but they can go, uninhibited online to some of the largest websites in the world, who are making billions and billions of dollars off the most dange

one of the people still standing in the way it's not just the aclu. but it's states like california and the governor there, gavin newsom is working on immigrant support plan to counter trump's deportations and this is what the plan propose it. says the creation of an immigrant support network comprised of regional hubs to connect at risk individuals. their families, and communities, with community systems, such as legal services, schools, labor unions, and local governments, so, is this really what california needs or should they maybe just cooperate to get the violent criminals out of their jails and their communities? >> well, i have said this before. i never thought i would say it again. we need look at new york city. they have come around saying hey, we are willing to work with ice to make sure we are targeting these criminals. look, this is something that is very, very important to the american people. it's been proven in the polls, it's been proven by the election. we need to go after that. and california is just getting in the way. you know, bu

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. >> jace woodrum, aclu in south carolina, one of the states under these bans, thank you. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex roger tonight starts right now. good evening. alex. >> basically protections we were moving forward in one direction, but so much stuff should equal protection. chris, thank you as always. as today host pete hegseth's mother, penelope hegseth, went on fox to vouch for her son and why he should still be donald trump's pick for secretary of defense. "the new york times" obtained an email miss hegseth wrote to her son while he was in the middle of a divorce. it read, "you are an abuser of women. on behalf of all the women, and i know it's many, you have abused in some way, i say get some help and take an honest look at yourself." on fox today, penelope hegseth disavowed what she wrote in that email and was direct about who she was hoping was listening. >> i am here to tell the truth. to tell the truth to the american people, and tell the truth to the senators on the hill, especially our female senators. i really hope that you will not listen t

the aclu at, that particular point to, very famous men at the time got involved in the trial. there was group of christian fundamentalist who asked william jennings bryan, who had been the three time presidential nominee on the democratic ticket if he would serve as lead in the prosecution of the case. and he who had been progressive and was very progressive, was also a religious fundamentalist, and he thought that this would be a wonderful opportunity to make sure that christianity was still the moral center of the. and he said he, would come to dayton, tennessee and duel to the death on behalf of christianity. so there's a lot of background and that i deal with in the book about why the theory of evolution at this particular time was so riled people like william jennings bryan and. one of the major reasons had to do with the recent and the use of gas and aerial bombing and things of that nature that bryan associated evolution, darwinism and science on the other side, just and that's just a very brief we'll talk more about this summation of bryan's point of view about the tri