Oct 24, 2018
ACLU Comment on Georgia Voting Rights Ruling
ATLANTA — A judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking election officials in Georgia from throwing out absentee ballots or applications for a supposed signature mism...
Issue Areas: Voting Rights
Oct 24, 2018
ACLU Calls for Moratorium on Law and Immigration Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition
Demands DHS Disclose If and How It Plans to Use the Surveillance Technology Following Reports of Amazon Courting ICE to Buy ‘Rekognition’
Oct 21, 2018
ACLU Statement on Reports of Trump Administration Attacks on Transgender People
NEW YORK—The Trump administration is reportedly working to dramatically roll-back protections for transgender students and narrow the definitions of sex and gender that courts ha...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Oct 19, 2018
ACLU, Rep. Castro, and Others Deliver 200,000 Petitions Demanding Greyhound Stop Allowing Border Patrol Raids
DALLAS — More than 200,000 signed petitions were delivered today to Greyhound’s headquarters demanding the transportation company stop allowing Border Patrol officials to board...
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Oct 16, 2018
ACLU Challenges Georgia Voter Signature-Matching Law
ATLANTA — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Georgia filed a lawsuit today against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and all county registrars demanding they provide due ...
Issue Areas: Voting Rights
Oct 15, 2018
Alabama Judge Vacates Death Sentence for ACLU Client
MOBILE, Ala. — The death sentence for American Civil Liberties Union client Lam Luong was successfully vacated by an Alabama court today at a hearing where Luong was resentenced ...
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