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8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The new rule aims to remedy a commonly cited barrier to working Americans considering running for office, which is often an all-consuming and expensive endeavor. [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 9:43 am by Richard Hunt
RI Hospitality Association Puerto Rico Restaurant Association/Asociación De Restaurantes De Puerto Rico New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association Massachusetts Restaurant Association Hospitality Maine Center for Constitutional Responsibility Buckeye Institute Maine Policy Institute Job Creators Network Foundation National Real Estate Investors Association, Ohio Hotel and Lodging Association National Association of Home Builders of the United States For neither party… [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 9:14 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
AIC, July 17, 2023 "Today, legal organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice and American Immigration Council, filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s new anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 1718. [read post]
” However, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Second Circuit originally ruled that “claims that cisgender girls were denied opportunities or championships [were] moot and unfounded. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Billions at Stake as Online Fundraising Practices Turn Off Voters MSN – Jessica Piper (Politico) | Published: 1/17/2023 Llyod Cotler, the founder of Banter Messaging, advises friends and family to write a check if they want to make political contributions and avoid online giving, lest their emails and phone numbers end up on lists that recirculate through the campaign world for eternity. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
A century-and-a-half after the Civil War, some places in the South—and the American political system—remain scarred by the violence and destruction the South brought upon itself. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 10:31 am by Xavier Persad
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU Comment on House Vote of the Electoral Count Act Moreover, as state legislative sessions approach, we expect to see continued state-level efforts to interfere with free and fair elections and restrict access to the ballot box. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 11:25 am by Kary L. Moss
Paid for by American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., in coordination with ACLU of Connecticut Rise PAC Incorporated. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats on the front lines of the fight to keep the party’s congressional majorities have cast their campaigns as key parts of a larger battle to restore abortion rights prevent the rollback of other liberties. [read post]
20 May 2022, 1:56 pm by David Kopel
I was called unpatriotic for opposing the civil liberties violations in the so-called PATRIOT Act of 2001. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 3:06 pm by Eugene Volokh
As discussed in the amicus briefs filed by the Quinnipiac University School of Law Legal Clinic, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, and the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Lambda Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc., and the Connecticut Transadvocacy Coalition, such an exception could be invoked to exclude women based on the privacy interests of men and could justify discrimination against transgender individuals because… [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Facebook also said it will stiffen penalties for public figures during times of civil unrest and violence. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 2:08 pm by Alicia Maule
  The bill received widespread support from a bipartisan coalition of organizations including the Innocence Project, Americans for Prosperity, American Civil Liberties Union, Institute for Justice, National Police Accountability Project, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
His analysis reveals how transformative New Deal-era developments in municipal governance, union organizing, labor politics and constitutional law dominated the conflict, and how assembly and speech rights changed according to judges' reaction to this historical situation.Clear-eyed and comprehensive, Workers against the City revises the view of a milestone case that continues to affect Americans' constitutional rights today.Here is an endorsement: "Skillfully… [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:40 am by Dale Ho
 Connecticut: On July 31, after the ACLU and the ACLU of Connecticut sued on behalf of the Connecticut NAACP, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, and an individual voter, the state passed a bill permitting every eligible voter to vote absentee using the “sickness of COVID-19” as a valid excuse.Kentucky: In August, the state of Kentucky agreed to let all eligible voters vote by mail due to the pandemic, and dropped several requirements that… [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 11:32 pm by David Kopel
In Coolidge's first State of the Union speech (1923), he declared: Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 2:32 pm by Mark Walsh
In the bar section, there is a contingent from the American Civil Liberties Union, including Louise Melling, the deputy director and director of its Center for Liberty, which oversees abortion rights and other issues. [read post]