May 23, 2019
ACLU Comment on Julian Assange Indictment
NEW YORK — The Department of Justice today charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech...
Issue Areas: Free Speech
May 23, 2019
Celebrity Busy Philipps Joins Forces with ACLU in Ad as Part of Ongoing Campaign to Fight Abortion Bans
NEW YORK — Celebrity Busy Philipps joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union today, lending her voice to fight against the passage of restrictive abortion bans in sta...
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
May 22, 2019
HUD Moves to Allow Anti-Trans Discrimination in Federally Funded Homeless Shelters
WASHINGTON — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a proposal today to roll back protections for transgender people experiencing homelessness, allowing ...
May 22, 2019
ACLU, Same-Sex Couple Seek to Join Lawsuit to Keep a License to Discriminate Out of Michigan’s Child Welfare System
DETROIT — Kristy and Dana Dumont are prospective foster parents who were turned away from two taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies in 2016 and 2017 because those agencies had a...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Buck v. Gordon
May 22, 2019
ACLU Sues Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery for Access to Public Records
PHOENIX—The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed a lawsuit today against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery for violating ...
Issue Areas: Smart Justice
May 22, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Advances Legislation to Protect Dreamers, TPS and DED Recipients from Deportation
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee passed the Dream Act and the American Promise Act tonight, which together would provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, Temporar...
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
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