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ACLU Warns Lightfoot Campaign on Coerced Political Speech

The Lightfoot campaign’s email to Chicago Public School teachers urging them to offer extra credit to students as an incentive to volunteer on the Mayor’s re-election campaign is inappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns.

January 12, 2023