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25 Jun 2024, 7:51 am
The American Civil Liberties Union, American Oversight, and Physicians for Human Rights, with Andrew Free, published a new report today on the persistent failures of medical care and lack of meaningful accountability for deaths in U.S. immigration detention facilities. [read post]
25 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
” Some civil liberties advocates opposed the idea. [read post]
24 Jun 2024, 11:54 am
In a letter opposing the preemption sections of the bill, our allies at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stated it this way: "the soundest approach to avoid the harms from preemption is to set the federal standard as a national baseline for privacy protections — and not a ceiling. [read post]
23 Jun 2024, 9:32 pm
“The Constitution protects everyone’s right to practice their religion free from discrimination," an ACLU-DE attorney said, "yet Delaware’s law directly prevents Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and others who do not practice embalming from practicing their sacred funeral services. [read post]
23 Jun 2024, 8:06 pm
”Despite the thousands of petitions to censor books about gender and sex, legal standards for deeming materials obscene or harmful to minors — and therefore not protected speech under the First Amendment — are very specific and high, and courts have historically sided with libraries, according to Vera Eidelman, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who focuses on rights to free speech in the digital age. [read post]
21 Jun 2024, 5:47 pm
The brief of the American and Ohio Civil Liberties Unions, as amici, did, in one short concluding paragraph of its argument, "request" the Court to reexamine and overrule Wolf, but without argumentation. [read post]
20 Jun 2024, 5:15 am
In a joint statement, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and two other groups said the law was “blatantly unconstitutional. [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 10:03 am
While right-wing critics fear that Juneteenth is somehow anti-American, some more left-wing commentators emphasize that slavery was not fully abolished on June 19, 1865, which was merely the date when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and announced the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation in one of the last parts of the former Confederacy where it had not yet been implemented. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 5:00 am
”—Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. [read post]
15 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
”—Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. [read post]
14 Jun 2024, 8:20 am
With the support of UNESCO, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) launched a study titled “No Tag: Press Freedom for Pluralism. [read post]
13 Jun 2024, 10:12 am
Shortly after the proclamation was signed, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) vowed to challenge it in court. [read post]
13 Jun 2024, 6:15 am
The American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigrant Justice Center, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Jenner & Block LLP, ACLU of the District of Columbia, and Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (Las Americas) and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). [read post]
13 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
He opened the speech with a 20-minute excoriation of the country’s lockdown at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it had struck a crippling blow to civil liberties. [read post]
8 Jun 2024, 12:00 pm
” The decision comes one year after video of the incident at Men’s Central Jail was made public by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which posted a 15-second clip of it online. [read post]
8 Jun 2024, 6:30 am
News/commentary re: "President Biden Announces New Actions to Secure the Border"- See White House factsheet, DHS factsheet & ICE implementation memo.Biden’s immigration order won’t fix problems quickly – 4 things to know about what’s changing (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]Biden’s New Changes to the Asylum Process: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2024) [text]"Biden’s new executive order denies asylum… [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 7:43 am
The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Bar Association (ABA) are among the groups opposing President Joe Biden’s executive order curbing asylum eligibility for migrants who illegally cross the southern border during peak periods. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 2:03 am
The Associated Press reports that Official White House Photo The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has prepared a memorandum offering possible responses... [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 5:40 am
A coalition of organizations--the American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Project, and the Women’s Refugee Commission--have released an informative Joint Analysis of the President's Border Proclamation. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
She’s an American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California senior staff attorney representing inmates in two of the ongoing federal lawsuits. [read post]
