American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) et al., Amici Curiae
David D. Cole, Counsel of Record
The ACLU, a nationwide, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with more than 400,000 members dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality and civil rights laws, is joined in this brief by its Minnesota chapter. David D. Cole has served as the national legal director of the ACLU since July 2016. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 12, 2018. Political speech lies at the core of the First Amendment’s protection. It is essential to our representative democracy that citizens be able to communicate about matters of governance. This…
