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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The budget of the ACLU in 2024 was $383 million. The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk.
The success prompted the ACLU to broaden their freedom of speech efforts beyond labor and political speech to encompass movies, press, radio, and literature. [39] The ACLU formed the National Committee on Freedom from Censorship in 1931 to coordinate this effort. [39] By the early 1930s, censorship in the United States was diminishing. [38]
As a result of their successful court challenge to elements of the Patriot Act, the ACLU also forced the FBI to open files it had on antiwar groups, including the ACLU itself. Further, under Romero's leadership, the ACLU became the first organization to successfully file a legal challenge to the Bush administration 's illegal National Security ...
Albert DeSilver (August 27, 1888 – December 7, 1924) [1] was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).. DeSilver graduated from Yale in 1910, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, [1] and then earned a law degree at Columbia Law School (1913) (editor Columbia Law Review).
Herman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1968 and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law, where she was a note and comment editor for the New York University Law Review. [5] [6] Herman served as pro se law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was a staff ...
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 ACLU counters that the act only gives the president limited use of such powers during a “declared war,” or an “invasion or predatory incursion” involving a foreign nation or government.
Harry Frederick Ward Jr. [a] (15 October 1873 – 9 December 1966) was an English-born American Methodist minister and political activist who identified himself with the movement for Christian socialism, best remembered as first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from its creation in 1920 until his resignation in protest of the organization's decision to bar ...