...The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Vermont, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, the National Immigration Law Center, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a large law firm headquartered in Los Angeles.

"Rights don't mean anything if you can be punished for exercising them," said Leah Lotto, a senior attorney with National Center for Law and Economic Justice. "The First Amendment does not exist in the abstract. It exists here, right now, in the exercise of our rights and our shared work to enforce our right to speak without retaliation." ...

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