AJ Albrecht
AJ Albrecht is the director of U.S. government affairs at Mercy For Animals and the chair-elect of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section’s Animal Law Committee. She can be reached at ajalbrecht@mercyforanimals.org.
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As President Trump deploys troops and tanks against protestors in Los Angeles and prepares for a military parade in Washington, over 1,800 rallies across the U.S. vow to resist authoritarianism with peaceful protest.
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