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The subcommittee will hear testimony from Helen Butler, executive director at the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda; Sophia Lin Lakin, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Voting Rights Project; Maureen Riordan, litigation counsel at the Public Interest Legal Foundation; and James Tucker, of counsel at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Congress started with securing the physical freedom of enslaved persons everywhere in the Union. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 7:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Kate Masur’s new book Until Justice Be Done makes it altogether clear that the “first American civil rights movement” focused at least as much on the mistreatment of “free Blacks” as on eliminating the undoubtedly even worse evils of chattel slavery. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 9:42 am by Rebecca Jeschke
” The signers of today’s letter include 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Access, ACLU of Northern California, American Civil Liberties Union, Article 19, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR), Demand Progress Education Fund, European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Fight for the Future, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Global Voices, Masaar-Technology and… [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Kevin McAleenan, former acting homeland security secretary; Anthony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union; Samuel Vale, president of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company; and Jaime Chamberlain, president of Chamberlain Distributing Inc. [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]
6 Jun 2021, 12:59 pm by David Cole
At the same time, the ACLU also remains devoted to defending other fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, including equal protection of the law — as we always have been. [read post]
3 May 2021, 8:03 am by Ekow Yankah
In addition, Terry’s position is supported by a diverse coalition, from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity Foundation, representing a growing left/right agreement on shrinking mass incarceration. [read post]
3 May 2021, 6:00 am by Scott Limmer
“Friend of court” briefs backing the challenge to the speech code came from the American Civil Liberties Union, the U.S. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 1:10 pm by Amy Howe
He told Aimee Feinberg, California’s deputy solicitor general, that a friend-of-the-court brief by the American Civil Liberties Union indicated that the justices should regard the state’s system as, in essence, a public disclosure system because so many significant breaches have occurred. [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 8:52 am by Rebecca Jeschke
—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Massachusetts today filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the Department of Homeland Security’s policy and practice of warrantless and suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices at U.S. airports and other ports of entry. [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 7:46 am by Kurt Lash
The Fourteenth Amendment would solve the problem of southern state representation created by the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and define the scope of post-bellum constitutional liberty. [read post]
Critics of laws like SB 202, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), say the legislation will disproportionately affect voters of color and working-class voters. [read post]
In ruling for Meriwether, the court, in grand fashion, observed: Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic freedom. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 9:23 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
Reuben Brigety II, vice-chancellor and president of Sewanee, The University of the South; Peter Yeo, senior vice president of the UN Foundation; Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, special representative of the Secretary-General to the Afircan Union and head of the UN office to the Afircan Union; and CSIS expert Judd Devermont. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 10:49 am by Amber Hikes
For more than a century, the ACLU has been on the frontlines advancing civil liberties and civil rights. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 12:44 pm by Ellis Cose
The American Civil Liberties Union’s origin story is tied inextricably to the xenophobic Palmer Raids, but the lesser-known events in Elaine, Arkansas were also formative. [read post]
8 Mar 2021, 6:39 am by David Oscar Markus
§ 3661 to preclude a court of the United States from considering, except for purposes of mitigating a sentence, acquitted conduct at sentencing, andDefining “acquitted conduct” to include acts for which a person was criminally charged and adjudicated not guilty after trial in a Federal, State, Tribal, or Juvenile court, or acts underlying a criminal charge or juvenile information dismissed upon a motion for acquittal.Along with Durbin and Grassley, the legislation is also… [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 6:17 am
 Back to the NY Post:The Foundation behind it claims to be a non-partisan organization “dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity. [read post]