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It was another busy week at the ACLU of Maine – from a major court victory to helping our neighbors know their rights. Catch up on the latest.

The Good Samaritan law was designed to save lives – and it has. But Maine's highest court recently ruled that a person's arbitrary word choice during an emergency should mark the difference between prosecution and freedom.

It was another busy week at the ACLU of Maine! Here's what you might have missed.

When the president threatened to withhold funding to Maine and said "I am the law," Gov. Mills responded by defending the rule of law and saying one of our favorite phrases: We’ll see you in court.

Justice Scolnik would have turned 102 today. For many years, he was the only ACLU volunteer lawyer in Maine. All that we are able to accomplish as an organization is because of what Lou Scolnik started.

Within hours of Donald Trump signing an order to end birthright citizenship, we sued. This week, we won arguments to block his illegal order as our case proceeds.

What executive orders can – and cannot – do, and why we have them in the first place

These orders represent a deliberate attempt to undo progress on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and create new barriers to opportunity.

Research shows extensive benefits from syringe exchange and other harm reduction programs. But misguided efforts to ban common sense care continue.