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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.
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 ...
The ACLU was more successful with an education effort; the 1952 report The Judges and the Judged, prepared at the ACLU's direction in response to the blocklisting of actress Jean Muir, described the unfair and unethical actions behind the blocklisting process, and it helped gradually turn public opinion against McCarthyism. [108]
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]
Archer was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1998 to 2000, and then an associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 2000 to 2003. [ 6 ] In 2003, Archer joined the faculty of New York Law School (NYLS), where she was the first dean of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and ...
The ACLU filed its lawsuit late Monday in New Hampshire federal court seeking to block Trump's order based on the harm it could harm an immigrant community of Indonesians and others in that state.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, National Immigration Law Center and law firm Rivas & Associates against Attorney General Gentner Drummond, Public Safety ...
Morris Leopold Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In public life, he defended and asserted the rights of Americans to privacy and freedom from censorship, playing a significant role in challenging and overcoming the banning of certain works of literature (including James Joyce's Ulysses and ...