By Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 12:16pm
Net neutrality – the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must treat all data on the Internet equally – is vital to free speech. But earlier this month, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the FCC's net neutrality rules, jeopardizing the openness of the Internet that we have come to take for granted.
By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office at 5:23pm
While working on reproductive rights in our nation's capital, your life starts to resemble the classic black comedy Groundhog Day in which the main character wakes up to find he's reliving the same day over and over again. I, like any good cinephile,…
Wake up in the morning feeling not like P.Diddy (sorry, Ke$ha), but instead feeling like wow, another official is saying something really pro-immigrant, and it's fantastic.
Today, it's Dayton Police Chief Richard S. Biehl (in Speaker Boehner's…
By Joanne Lin, Washington Legislative Office at 4:51pm
The massive $1.1 trillion spending bill (“omnibus”) passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Obama includes a significant victory: a provision aimed at ending the atrocious practice of shackling pregnant women in immigration…
By Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:06pm
The ACLU’s Chris Calabrese testified yesterday before the Senate Commerce Committee in a hearing on the economic benefits and the safety, privacy, and First Amendment implications of unmanned aerial vehicles — drones — which are poised to invade…
By Ian S. Thompson, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 10:13am
Since the Supreme Court's landmark Windsor ruling last June striking down the core of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA), the federal government has moved, with commendable speed, in a myriad of areas to extend recognition to the marriages…
By Ian S. Thompson, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:33am
In the late hours on Thursday evening, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 84-15, passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. Included within the sprawling annual defense authorization…
By Nicole Ozer, Technology & Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California at 2:29pm
This op-ed originally ran in the San Jose Mercury News before the tech giants released their letter to Pres. Obama and Congress urging widespread surveillance reform.
In August, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington,…
By Alex Berger, Legislative Assistant, ACLU at 3:00pm
Lucille MacBeth, mother of slain Florida teen Jordan Russell Davis, did all she could to keep from crying during her testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution earlier this week. After nearly five minutes of testimony,…
