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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the ...
WEBAug 17, 2021 · The ACLU has taken action against unlawful voter purges and laws that enable them. In 2019, we stopped Texas’ flawed, discriminatory voter purge list that targeted naturalized citizens.
Criminal Law Reform - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBThe Criminal Law Reform Project (CLRP) seeks to end criminal justice policies that fuel mass incarceration, over-criminalization, and racial injustice. By fighting for transformational change to policing, pretrial detention, public defense, and probation and parole, CLRP is working to reverse the tide of mass incarceration, advance ...