Mary McCord will present "Militia Groups in Idaho" at the League of Women Voters of Moscow Speaker Forum, 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday (Jan.26). Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/LWVMSpF.

The presentation will address issues of what constitutes a militia, issues of domestic terrorism, militia groups in Idaho, legal limits, and groups and legal issues with militia operations in Idaho.

McCord is Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. At ICAP, she leads a team that brings constitutional impact litigation at all levels of the federal and state courts across a wide variety of areas including First Amendment rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and combating the rise of private paramilitaries.

McCord was the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2016 to 2017 and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security from 2014 to 2016.

In addition to numerous publications, McCord received the Oliver White Hill Courageous Advocate Award from the Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association in 2018, based on her work with ICAP litigating against white supremacist and private militias that attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.