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The ACLU's 2024 annual report states that it engages in legal advocacy in support of civil rights, including abortion rights, LGBTQ equality, immigrants’ rights, criminal law reform, free speech, and voting rights. [3]: 3–4 When the ACLU was formed in 1919, free speech was the civil right that it concentrated on.
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]
In addition to labor, the ACLU also led efforts in non-labor arenas, for example, promoting free speech in public schools. [15] The ACLU was banned from speaking in New York public schools in 1921. [16] The ACLU, working with the NAACP, also supported racial discrimination cases. [17] The ACLU defended free speech regardless of espoused opinions.
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky - ACLU defended itself; The King’s English v. Shurtleff - represented King's English and others; Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - represented eleven parents; Varian v. Delfino - Amicus curiae for Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day; Gonzales v. Oregon - Amicus curiae for Oregon; Rumsfeld v.
During one town hall event in New Hampshire in April 2019, Harris was asked by a voter if she supports adding a “third gender” to federal identification cards. “Sure,” Harris answered to a ...
His critics within the ACLU have launched websites such as savetheaclu.org and voicesfortheaclu.org, reporting that he "has betrayed fundamental ACLU values". [13] [16] In 2002, Romero signed a consent decree with the New York Attorney General at the time, Eliot Spitzer, to settle a privacy breach that had been discovered on the ACLU website ...
Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily BeastThe group formerly known as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which has won plaudits for its advocacy for freedom of speech on ...
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.