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Law and Disorder
Mon, Feb 16, 2026 11:00 AM
LAW AND DISORDER FEBRUARY 16, 2026
Dear Listener,
Co-hosts Heidi Boghosian and Stephen Rohde honor black history month at a time when the nation is confronting bold acts of hatred toward African Americans. We speak with two movement lawyers. First, we spotlight an embattled civil liberties lawyer in the UK. Our guest, Fahad Ansari, is a senior civil liberties solicitor based in London who has been sounding the alarm about the UK’s sweeping misuse of terrorism laws.
Under the pretext of national security, these laws have quietly rolled back basic civil rights and criminalized dissent. Ansari’s work exposes a shocking pattern of state overreach—and embodies the courage of lawyers who continue to stand up to an increasingly irrational and authoritarian use of power.
Attorney Mark Fancher then joins hosts from Michigan to discuss the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and several key civil rights cases he's litigated while at the ACLU of Michigan. Mark recently retired as Senior Staff Attorney with the Racial Justice Project of the ACLU of Michigan..png)