ACLU Statement Opposing Rep. Graves' BDS Amendment to MilCon-VA Appropriations Bill

In this letter to the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, the ACLU urged members to vote “NO” on an amendment offered by Rep. Graves to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill that would permit federal agencies to adopt unconstitutional measures intended to suppress protected political expression when those opinions are disfavored by the government.

While we take no position on Israel boycotts, the BDS movement, or Israel-Palestine, we do maintain the government should not be sanctioning business on the basis of First Amendment-protected expression and association.