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At the national level, the ACLU consists of two legal entities: the American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)(4) social welfare group; and the ACLU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Both are non-profit organizations that engage in civil rights litigation, advocacy, and education. The two organizations are closely related, and share common ...
David D. Cole is the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).Before joining the ACLU in July 2016, [1] Cole was the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center [2] from March 2014 [3] through December 2016. [1]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been involved in the following legal cases, either by representing a party, or filing an amicus brief, or otherwise significantly involved. 1920s [ edit ]
American Civil Liberties Union, the Supreme Court voided the anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act (the CDA), finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment. In their decision, the Supreme Court held that the CDA's "use of the undefined terms 'indecent' and 'patently offensive' will provoke ...
Since 2009, she has been on the ACLU’s board, and since 2017 has been general counsel and a member of the board’s executive committee. [7] She is also a member of the boards of the New York Civil Liberties Union, [8] the Legal Aid Society, [9] and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. [10]
The American Civil Liberties Union filed legal challenges against former President Donald Trump 's administration more than 400 times during his time in the White House, helping to halt an array ...
Nebraska's top election official has no authority to declare unconstitutional a state law that restores the voting rights of those who’ve been convicted of a felony, a lawyer for the American ...
Following Wulf's departure from the ACLU, he formed a law firm with Alan Levine, a former ACLU colleague, and Ramsey Clark, the former U.S. Attorney General. The firm challenged book-banning before the Supreme Court, defended two authors against libel charges from the Church of Scientology , and represented such clients as Philip Agee and Frank ...