Aaron Terr
Public Advocacy Team
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
- Speech is not a crime — even if it complicates ICE’s job,
- No president gets to decide who deserves a lawyer,
- Trump’s federal funding crackdown includes troubling attacks on free speech,
- White House barring AP from press events violates the First Amendment,
- Wisconsin school district mulls unconstitutional ‘hate speech’ policy,
- Minnesota state agency must drop investigation of employee’s Facebook post,
- Florida health department defies First Amendment, threatens to prosecute TV stations for airing abortion rights ad,
- Meta’s Oversight Board rightly rejects outright ban on phrase, ‘From the river to the sea’,
- Let Americans have both a job and a political opinion,
- FIRE brief: TikTok law is unprecedented threat to Americans’ expressive rights,
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