By Richard Muniz, Reproductive Rights Fellow, ACLU of Illinois at 1:59pm
Today, the ACLU and the ACLU of Illinois filed a friend-of-the-court brief in two additional appeals challenging the Affordable Care Act's ("ACA") contraceptive coverage rule. Our brief urges the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reject requests by secular, for-profit companies and their owners to block enforcement of the rule. The district court in both cases refused to grant the companies' requests, and they seek to overturn those decisions.
By Aziz Ahmad, Racial Justice Program & Aziz Ahmad, Racial Justice Program & Richard Muniz, Reproductive Rights Fellow, ACLU of Illinois at 6:10pm
Under Milwaukee's 20-year-old school voucher program ? the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), parents have a "choice" between two publicly funded school systems. Parents can either send their children to the city public schools or apply a publicly funded voucher to attend private schools, which are often religious. In the last school year, Milwaukee parents enrolled more than 20,000 children in private school using vouchers.
