...“These legislators, and no doubt future ones, are emboldened by the narrow, authoritarian caste of mind emanating from the new President—one that is ignorant of the basic premises of a healthy democracy and cowardly in the face of peaceful challenges to an unjust status quo,” Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote in an email to Rewire. “But these laws will ultimately not suppress this movement both because of its growing strength and resoluteness and because a higher authority—the Constitution—protects the protesters’ rights more than it does the authoritarian’s power.” ...

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