Aaron Terr
A native of Long Island, New York, Aaron graduated from Vassar College with a degree in biology in 2007. He went on to attend the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review. After earning his J.D. in 2012, Aaron worked as a judicial clerk and then as a staff attorney at the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. A former volunteer for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Aaron has a longstanding interest in civil liberties. In his free time, he enjoys playing guitar, hiking, and playing racket sports.
Recent Writings
- Offering no explanation, Osceola County permanently removes multiple books from its school libraries,
- From Florida to Maine, school boards and city councils silence critics in the name of ‘decorum’,
- Bristol, Tennessee bans comments on its social media pages that would ‘negatively affect the city’s image’,
- Do the cops suing Afroman after raiding his home have a case?,
- Twitter removes ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ posts in another loss for free expression on the platform,
- Congress should require the government to disclose its communications with social media companies about user speech,
- Florida city bans ‘political’ events of 10-plus people in all parks, streets, and sidewalks,
- Hartford Police Department says it will arrest people for making alleged threats — even when it knows they weren’t true threats,
- FIRE calls on Stanford University to put out fires on its own campus,
- No, you can't be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance,
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