Howard L. Simon, Ph.D, served as executive director of the ACLU of Michigan from 1974-1997, and executive director of the ACLU of Florida from 1997-2018.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defended their right to free speech, overturning an injunction that would have stopped the march. For Jewish communities, it was a wake-up call — a ...

Winnipeg’s Skokie moment Just as the Skokie Affair exposed a harsh reality about the misuse of free speech, the events in Winnipeg highlight a dangerous tolerance for rising antisemitism.

This is not a new phenomenon. The ACLU was one of the driving forces behind Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court case that held that money is speech, and the organization boasts that the ACLU ...

Skokie (1977), in which the American Civil Liberties Union represented neo-Nazis who had been enjoined from holding a demonstration in an Illinois village with a large Jewish population.

When I asked this former staffer if they thought today’s ACLU would still defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, the landmark ACLU case of 1977, they said “yes” but with ...

As a young lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, David Goldberger defended the rights of Nazis to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Ill., a village that was home to many Jewish residents ...

The ACLU is arguing for free speech, while the Attorney General pursues civil charges against NSC-131 for hanging a white supremacist sign from a public highway overpass.

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who challenged neo-Nazis, dies at 102 He helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in Skokie, Ill., in the 1970s that produced one of the most ...

His answer was a master class in how to get shit done, a testament to the power of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good: I think it’s 100 percent right to support the ACLU. I used to work ...