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23 Jun 2018, 7:00 am
The ACLU, the nation’s oldest and largest civil liberties organization, has always had its share of critics. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 11:02 am
As the Senate votes on FISA amendments today, we offer the point of view of an ACLU attorney who's on the front line of the battle to hold phone companies accountable for colluding with the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 12:44 pm by Ellis Cose
And it brought together some 30-plus organizations — including Alpha Kappa Alpha, the American Jewish Committee, the YWCA, and the National Lawyers Guild — to ruminate on race. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 10:09 am by Nonprofit Blogger
In response to the New York Attorney General's suit seeking dissolution against the National Rifle Association, David Cole (Legal Director, ACLU) penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed (paywall) entitled "NRA has a Right to Exist. [read post]
1 May 2012, 5:12 pm by Jack Goldsmith
In connection with my post this morning on the Brennan speech and the ACLU FOIA litigation, Jameel Jaffer – who heads up the ACLU’s National Security Project – had this op-ed on the FOIA litigation (with Nathan Wessler) on Monday and this response today to Brennan’s speech. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 9:17 am
The ACLU has obtained a new set of documents showing the military's expanded role since the passage of the Patriot Act in obtaining national security letters. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 1:36 pm by Ayelet Waldman
It was 1977, when the ACLU took on the case of the local branch of the American National Socialist Party, whose members wanted to hold a march along the main street of Skokie, a predominantly Jewish suburb outside Chicago. [read post]
” The post ACLU files lawsuit challenging new Georgia legislative maps appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 11:14 am by Bradley McAllister
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Monday announced that they had filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [DOJ backgrounder] seeking information on the extent of governmental use and interpretation of Executive Order 12,333 [federal backgrounder], which permits US government surveillance abroad to protect national security. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 4:22 pm by Kent Scheidegger
An Empirical Examination of the "ACLU Effect" and The Role of Stop and Frisks in Preventing Gun Violence. [read post]
15 May 2009, 1:52 am
  More than 192,000 U.S. women receive breast cancer diagnoses every year, and about 5 to 10 percent of those cases are a hereditary form of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 9:38 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Following her work with the ACLU, Sonia Pressman went on to become a founding member of the National Organization for Women and the first woman attorney in the general counsel's office at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), responsible for drafting a number of the EEOC's initial landmark guidelines. [read post]
The New York Times had an editorial in Monday's paper — "They Don't Agree Often" — highlighting the ACLU's support for legislation currently pending in Congress which would establish a national blue-ribbon commission to examine the nation's badly broken criminal justice system and propose solutions. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 2:01 pm by raoneeri
Cleveland et al, the recent successful challenge to the city of Cleveland’s restrictions on protesters at the Republican National Convention. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 10:55 am
The ACLU's National Prison Project has filed a lawsuit against the Ely State Prison based upon the callous disregard of prison officials concerning medical care of inmates. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 2:58 pm by Alex Vitrak
ACLU attorneys have been monitoring the U.S. government’s use of the Patriot Act for years, and this document confirms our biggest fears. [read post]