This Isn't Washington. It's Worse.

Sekulow

Jay Sekulow

Government, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Conservative speech is under attack, and the ACLJ is fighting back. If we don’t act now, the First Amendment could be at risk nationwide. Our client was threatened with citation and arrest for displaying signs that city officials didn’t approve of while acting within his First Amendment rights. We are taking action to ensure that his free speech liberties are not infringed upon. The Sekulow team discusses its latest major free speech case, our brief at the U.S. Supreme Court – and much more.

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0:00.0	Today on Seculo, this isn't Washington, D.C.
0:04.2	It's worse.
0:06.0	Keeping you informed and engaged.
0:08.6	Now more than ever.
0:10.2	This is Seculo.
0:14.2	We want to hear from you.
0:16.4	Share and post your comments.
0:17.7	Recall, 1-800-684-3-110. And now your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3-1-1-0. And now your host. Welcome to Seculo,
0:27.6	executive producer Will Haynes, joining you this Friday. And we've got a lot to cover in this show,
0:34.1	folks. But I want to start here. And where I'm starting isn't in Washington,
0:40.0	D.C. And it's not about the White House, and it's not about the Department of Justice, but in a way,
0:46.1	it's much, much bigger than those things. This is about a city government in Southern Illinois,
1:02.4	Carbondale, where officials literally told a pro-life missionary, you don't have First Amendment rights.
1:04.8	You heard that right.
1:13.7	They told a pro-life missionary that they didn't have First Amendment rights. And if that doesn't wake you up,
1:21.6	it should. And I'm going to explain why coming up in this broadcast. Because this is a case that we've told you a little bit about before, but we have just filed a preliminary injunction in this case against the city of
1:30.4	Carbondale asking the federal court to block enforcement of a city ordinance which is unfairly
1:39.5	targeting conservative pro-life speech. And it's so vague, it's unconstitutional.
1:46.1	And we're going to get into the details of that.
1:48.1	But it should fire you up.
1:49.4	And it has me fired up this Friday.
1:51.5	Looking at what we filed with the court, some of the exhibits, and we'll go through all that.
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