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One basis of these allegations was a 2017 statement the ACLU president made to a reporter after the death of a counter-protester during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Virginia, where Romero told a reporter that the ACLU would no longer support legal cases of activists that wish to carry guns at their protests. [271]
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.
American Civil Liberties Union v. Miller, 977 F.Supp. 1228 (1997), was a court case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia between the ACLU and Georgia governor Zell Miller. [1] [2] The case was an early precedent on the ability of individuals to use the World Wide Web anonymously.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed legal challenges against former President Donald Trump 's administration more than 400 times during his time in the White House, helping to halt an array ...
In 1920, NCLB was renamed the American Civil Liberties Union, with Baldwin continuing as the ACLU's first executive director. [ 4 ] In the meantime, on 30 October 1918, as a conscientious objector himself, refusing even to register for the draft, undergo medical examination, or accept any alternative service such as farming, was sentenced at ...
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 ...
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 ...
The American Civil Liberties Union joined other groups in opposing the injunction, arguing that it would effectively outlaw legal activities such as carrying on conversations and possessing tools like pocket knives and screwdrivers, and that it could lead to injustices against people whose identities may have been mistaken. The injunction was ...