Why Hate Speech is Free Speech - with ACLU’s Anthony Romero
Hasan sits down with ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero to chat through why it’s important to represent the NRA, what it’s like going toe to toe with the Supreme Court, and whether or not he misses George W. Bush.
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Hasan Minhaj
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producer/Director: Tyler Babin
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Scott Vrooman
Producer: Kayla Feng
Cinematographer: Austin Morales
Editor: N/V Moore and Will Feinstein
Writer's assistant: Annie Fick
Talent Coordinator: Tanya Somanader
Executive Assistant: Samuel Piland
0:00 Know your Nazis
0:29 Opening monologue
1:55 What does the ACLU do?
3:32 Playing the legal long game
5:09 Why being non-partisan is important
10:33 Why Anthony isn’t writing off the Supreme Court
13:43 The “unitary executive” theory
15:13 The ACLU is flooding the zone
18:11 The Alien Enemies Act
20:07 Ads
23:37 Birthright citizenship
26:57 Fighting the immigration dragnet
29:58 Counting to 5
33:37 What is an “amicus brief?”
35:04 Mahmoud Khalil and modern McCarthyism
39:28 Ads
42:22 Protecting speech you don’t like
46:05 Firewall for Freedom
48:09 Closing thoughts
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