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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]
Anthony D. Romero (born July 9, 1965) is an American lawyer who serves as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He assumed the position in 2001 as the first Latino and openly gay man to do so.
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.
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).
For example, the reactionary, anti-Catholic, anti-black Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a frequent target of ACLU efforts, but the ACLU defended the KKK's right to hold meetings in 1923. [18] There were some civil rights that the ACLU did not make an effort to defend in the 1920s, including censorship of the arts, government search and seizure issues ...
Deborah N. Archer is an American civil rights lawyer and law professor. She is Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law.She also directs and founded the Community Equity Initiative at NYU Law and directs the Law School's Civil Rights Clinic.
Nadine Strossen (born August 18, 1950) is an American legal scholar and civil liberties activist who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1991 to 2008. A liberal feminist, she was the first woman to lead the ACLU. [ 1 ]
Choudhury began her career as a law clerk for Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2007 and Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2007 to 2008. She worked at the national ACLU based in New York City from 2008 to 2020. [6]