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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 ]
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.
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.
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]
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.
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).
In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen ... or state law enforcement to hold an individual up to 48 hours beyond their release time so ICE can take them into custody for ...
Herman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1968 and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law, where she was a note and comment editor for the New York University Law Review. [5] [6] Herman served as pro se law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was a staff ...