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WEBHow Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care. The ACLU’s latest report outlines how interior immigration checkpoints and anti-immigrant state policing trap noncitizens trying to leave Texas... By Sarah Mehta, Blair Wallace.
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WEBACLU Reaction to Biden Administration’s Changes to Most Recent Asylum Ban. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced today that it will make it harder for people to exercise their right to seek asylum by further entrenching the restrictions in its... Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights.
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WEBSince our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
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WEBThe ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project continues to champion freedom of expression in its myriad forms — whether through protest, media, online speech, or the arts — in the face of new threats.
About the ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBWhen a roomful of civil liberties activists — led by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, and Albert DeSilver — formed the ACLU in 1920, the Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. Activists languished in jail for distributing anti-war literature.
Eight Supreme Court Cases To Watch | ACLU
WEBMay 16, 2024 · The ACLU has served as counsel or filed friend-of-the-court briefs in all of the cases addressing these hot-button issues. The court will decide all its cases by the beginning of July. Here are eight undecided cases to watch, and what they mean for the future of our civil liberties.
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WEBACLU Releases Legal, Legislative, and Advocacy Roadmap to Fight the Expansion of Mass Incarceration by a Second Trump Administration
LGBTQ Rights - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBIn the last few years, states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywhere.
Why is the ACLU Representing the NRA Before the US Supreme …
WEBMar 18, 2024 · The ACLU argues that coercing private parties to blacklist the NRA because of its advocacy violates the First Amendment, just as punishing the group directly for its “gun promotion” views would.
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WEBThe ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project fights in the courts, lobbies on Capitol Hill, and works with technology companies to ensure that civil liberties are protected as technology advances.