The ACLU used to defend free speech and the First Amendment.

House Committee on the Judiciary · February 6, 2026

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Unidentified Speaker said the hearing concerns whether the First Amendment should have a global reach and raised the concrete question of whether someone who speaks in the U.S. but is a citizen of another country can be arrested in a third country for what was said in America.

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An unidentified speaker at a House Committee on the Judiciary hearing criticized arguments for an extraterritorial reach of the First Amendment and accused the ACLU of partisan hypocrisy, arguing U.S. speech can lead to arrests in third countries.

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