Some Islamic school students in New York City got a surprise civics lesson when a judge briefly barred them from a public courtroom, saying she suspected their presence was a ploy to get sympathy with the jury…..
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that without “extraordinary circumstances, the exclusion of a group of students would be incompatible with the public’s right to know.”
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