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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 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]
The ACLU responded by releasing a report saying that those who linked Proposition 47 and crime were "making irresponsible and inaccurate statements." [ 26 ] In November 2015, the director of the Stanford Justice Advocacy Project and co-author of Proposition 47, Michael Romano, said that with respect to Proposition 47, "In the long term, this ...
The ACLU's 100-year history of fighting for civil liberties in Southern California includes drag queens, immigrants, prisoners, students and nude statues. But 'progress isn't inevitable.'
In 1995, Connerly became the chairman of the California Civil Rights Initiative Campaign [1] and helped get the initiative on the California ballot as Proposition 209. The Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, the ACLU, and the California Teachers Association opposed the measure. It passed with 54.6% of the vote. [3]
A coalition of immigrant rights groups called Shut Down Adelanto, of which the ACLU of Southern California is a member, has advocated for the facility's closure for years, citing numerous health ...
The ACLU – through lawyers Lisa Holley, Lynette Labinger and Sonja Deyoe – faults the state’s arguments as illogical, arguing that, in practice, that reading of the law would waste resources ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. American lawyer and politician (born 1969) Harmeet Dhillon Dhillon in 2021 United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Nominee Assuming office TBD President Donald Trump Succeeding Kristen Clarke Republican National Committeewoman from California Incumbent ...