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The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk. Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments when another law firm is already providing representation. In addition to representing persons and organizations in ...
For example, the reactionary, anti-Catholic, anti-black Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a frequent target of ACLU efforts, but the ACLU defended the KKK's right to hold meetings in 1923. [18] There were some civil rights that the ACLU did not make an effort to defend in the 1920s, including censorship of the arts, government search and seizure issues ...
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]
Lucas Guttentag, a Stanford University law professor who founded the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that though the Supreme Court now has a 6-3 conservative majority, it and lower ...
Union (“ACLU”) to testify at today’s Democratic forum on “The Role of the Federal Government and Hate Crimes." The ACLU is a nationwide, non-partisan organization with more than a half million members, countless additional activists and supporters, and 53 affiliates
As director of ACLU, Baldwin was integral to the shape of the association's early character; it was under Baldwin's leadership that the ACLU undertook some of its most famous cases, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin retired from the ACLU leadership in ...
The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person's biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue ...
ACLU asks for return of 30 books removed for being 'obscene' The letter also asks the board to reconsider previous decisions to remove books based on complaints of being obscene and return the ...