Constitutional Crisis: Are Civil Liberties (and Freedom Itself) a Thing of the Past?

We want to talk about civil liberties, habeas corpus, due process, and immigrant detentions and deportations. While ordinary life goes on for most of us, some Mainers are living in fear. This is not normal. This will be the fourth program in our series on the constitutional crisis.

• Molly Curren Rowles, Executive Director, ACLU Maine
• Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice at Michigan Law, author of the book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. She is also a host of the podcast, Sisters in Law.
• Sue Roche, Executive Director, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project

Learn more about this topic:

• Two things disrupting Trump's deportation efforts | Vox, June 2025
• Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids | The Washington Post, June 2025
• Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests | AP News, June 2025
• Inside a Courthouse, Chaos and Tears as Trump Accelerates Deportations | The New York Times, June 2025
• What to Know About Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and Criminal Charges | New York Times, June 2025
• Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Most Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries | The New York Times, June 2025
• Maine State Chamber of Commerce urges businesses to prepare for potential immigration inspections | Maine Public, June 2025
• A look at public opinion polling on Trump's immigration policies and how it's changed | NPR, June 2025
• A ‘concerned’ Mainer’s tip got an immigrant wrongly detained for 65 days | BDN, June 2025
• What is habeas corpus, and what has the Trump administration said about suspending it? | PBS News, May 2025
• The Data Analyst Tracking the Immigrants Disappeared by ICE | The CUT, April 2025
• ACLU of Maine Finds Expanded Immigration Detainment, Demands More Information | ACLU Maine, April 2025
• Immigration detention increase reveals expanded federal operations in Maine | Maine Morningstar, April 2025
• What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. | Pew Research Center, July 2024

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