The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is suing the city of Vail over its dismissal of artist Danielle SeeWalker from an artist-in-residence program, following an April grievance about SeeWalker’s previous paintings.
The go well with, filed Monday in U.S. District Court docket, states that the city violated SeeWalker’s First Modification rights in canceling her residency over political causes prior to she’d even painted a unmarried brushstroke.
“… SeeWalker’s unfastened speech rights underneath the federal and state constitutions had been violated when the city of Vail hastily canceled her residency after she expressed her non-public perspectives at the struggle in Gaza on her social media web page,” in step with an ACLU of Colorado observation.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is suing the city of Vail over its dismissal of artist Danielle SeeWalker from an artist-in-residence program, following an April grievance about SeeWalker’s previous paintings.
The go well with, filed Monday in U.S. District Court docket, states that the city violated SeeWalker’s First Modification rights in canceling her residency over political causes prior to she’d even painted a unmarried brushstroke.
“… SeeWalker’s unfastened speech rights underneath the federal and state constitutions had been violated when the city of Vail hastily canceled her residency after she expressed her non-public perspectives at the struggle in Gaza on her social media web page,” in step with an ACLU of Colorado observation.
