Directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres

Seven days after Trump’s inauguration, his Muslim ban was a stunning assault on civil liberties – but it was even more extraordinary to watch ACLU lawyers fight back. Just thirty hours after the order was signed, attorneys emerged from a Brooklyn courthouse with fists raised high, triumphant at the court’s first check on the president’s power.

The Trump administration has since moved to expel transgender soldiers from the military, roll back voting rights, prosecute police in sanctuary cities, and reinstate the Muslim ban. But at each affront, an ACLU lawyer is fighting back. In this modern-day David vs. Goliath story, we’ll watch these self-described “freedom nerds” struggle to stop an unpredictable adversary with unlimited resources.

The lawyers of the ACLU are now at the epicenter of the battle to constrain President Trump’s anti-constitutional impulses – even while protecting the most controversial free speech rights of his supporters. The Fight is the inside story of the human struggle at this moment of national crisis.