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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 ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk.
The ACLU supported The New York Times in its 1971 suit against the government, requesting permission to publish the Pentagon Papers. The court upheld the Times and ACLU in the New York Times Co. v. United States ruling, which held that the government could not preemptively prohibit the publication of classified information and had to wait until ...
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 questionnaire, which was sent to all Democratic and Republican candidates during the 2020 presidential campaign, provides a clear record of Harris’ progressive stances.
Current law does not allow the Internal Revenue Service to suspend the tax-exempt status of organizations that have provided material support to such organizations, but it is a federal crime for ...
National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States. [2] [3] [4] With more than 225,000 members, [1] [5] it is the farthest-reaching union and professional association of registered nurses in the U.S. Founded in 2009 through the merging of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the United American Nurses, and the ...
An ACLU questionnaire from 2019 has revealed a number of her previous more progressive stances (REUTERS) “As President, she will take that same pragmatic approach, focusing on common-sense ...
CNA was the first nurses union in the U.S. to win collective bargaining contracts for nurses when Shirley Carew Titus [7] advocated for agreements with the East Bay Hospital Conference for minimum salaries, time-and-a-half pay for overtime, shift differentials for night and weekend work, a 40-hour work week, paid holidays, vacations, and sick ...