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On Monday, ACLU officials said Goldsmith agreed with them on several of its arguments in the suit, including:
∎ Retroactively extending registration terms from 25 years to life violates the Constitution;
∎ People who were not convicted of a sexual offense cannot be subjected to the law without a judicial hearing;
∎ Michigan cannot impose harsher registration requirements on people with out-of-state convictions than on people with state convictions;
∎ The law's requirements for registrants to report internet identifiers like email and social media accounts violate their First Amendment rights;
∎ Forcing registrants to attest that they understand the sex offenders registration act, even if they do not, is unconstitutional compelled speech.