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Rachel Meeropol

Rachel Meeropol is an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on prisoners’ rights, Muslim profiling, criminalization of dissent and First Amendment issues, including defending environmental and animal rights activists targeted by the Green Scare. Rachel was lead counsel in Blum v. Holder, a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, and on CCR’s amicus brief in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Otter, a challenge to Idaho’s “ag-gag” law. She is lead counsel on CCR’s motion to dismiss “animal enterprise terrorism” charges against two animal rights activists accused of freeing thousands of mink and foxes from fur farms, in U.S. v. Johnson.

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