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ACLU Vows To Sue Trump And Win Over Illegal Census Memo
ACLU Director Dale Ho said that the organization will sue Trump over his illegal memo directed that undocumented immigrants not be counted in the Census.
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Huge Victory for ACLU in Family Separation Lawsuit
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has won a huge lawsuit against the Trump administration in federal court. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw has ruled that potentially thousands of migrant families who were separated at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy may now…
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On Tuesday 1.4 million Floridians Will Finally Get the Right to Vote
It’s been a long time coming, as many voting rights and progressive groups fought for years to make it happen. And on Tuesday it happens: “one of the largest enfranchisements of U.S. citizens in the past century.†Tuesday is the day that more than 1.4 million ex-felons in Florida will regain their voting rights. It…
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Illegal Immigrants May Still Seek Asylum, Judge Says
To fire up his anti-immigrant base of supporters before the election, President Donald Trump announced he was issuing an extensive executive order requiring asylum-seekers to present themselves at a port of entry. He also said that he would hold the Central American refugees in tent cities while their legal cases are being heard, which could…
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Woman Denied Miscarriage Prescription Due to Pharmacist’s Religion
A Roman Catholic pharmacist in Michigan refused to fill a woman’s prescription for miscarriage medicine, saying he couldn’t do it because he is “a good Catholic male.” The woman, Rachel Peterson, told The Chicago Tribune: “He said that he was a good Catholic male and that he couldn’t in good conscience give me this medication…
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ACLU Sues Georgia Over Effort To Rig The Vote
The ACLU has announced that they are suing the state of Georgia over their signature match law that is the heart of the GOP rig the vote effort.
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ACLU Breaks Neutrality Rule to Oppose Kavanaugh
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Saturday that it is opposing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. This is a break in the ACLU’s historical practice of not endorsing or opposing judicial candidates. “Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Period.†Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be…
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ACLU Reaches Agreement With U.S. on Plan to Reunite Children
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the U.S. government have finally agreed on a new plan to reunite hundreds of families which had been separated by immigration officials at the U.S.-Mexican border. The families were trying to cross into the United States at the border but without proper documentation the adults were arrested and…
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ACLU Sues Jeff Sessions for Removing Asylum Protections
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, alleging the “evisceration of asylum protections†in refusing to consider domestic and gang violence as worthy criteria for granting asylum. “BREAKING: We’re suing Jeff Sessions for illegally denying asylum protections to immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality. These…
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Judge Says Government Officials Must Find the Parents of Children They Kidnapped
On July 23rd we reported that: “More than 450 immigrant parents who were separated from their children when they entered the United States illegally are no longer in the country though their children remain behind, according to a joint court filing on Monday by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union.†Then on…
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New Report: ACLU Membership More Than Quadrupled Since Trump’s Election
Thanks to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has more than quadrupled its membership, according to an article in The New York Times. Before Trump’s election the group had just 400,000 members and most of its actions were out of the public eye.  But…
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Massive Legal Liability For U.S. As It Has No Plan To Reunite Children
The United States government may be facing massive numbers of lawsuits over the new policy of separating children from parents who are arrested by U.S. Border Patrol. This is because not only may the act of separation give rise to legal liability, but there may be additional liability if the parents are not reunited with…
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ACLU Demands Trump Surveillance Records of Immigrants and Citizens
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Thursday demanding government records concerning social media surveillance of immigrants and U.S. citizens under the Trump administration. The filing, sent to seven different agencies of the United States government, said that recent tactics displayed by the Trump administration had raised…
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ACLU Immediately Sues Trump Over Rollback Of Birth Control Coverage
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing that their rollback of contraceptive coverage is religiously motivated discrimination against women.
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ACLU sues over FDA restrictions on abortion pill access
he American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to challenge U.S. Food and Drug Administration restrictions that limit the ability of women to access the so-called abortion pill.
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The ACLU Destroys Trump’s Fake Voter Fraud Commission With One Sentence
The ACLU wrecked Trump’s bogus voter fraud commission by pointing out that there are more people on the commission than Kris Kobach has convicted of voter fraud in Kansas.
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Trump’s Bogus Election Integrity Commission Just Got Sued By The ACLU
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against over the lack transparency in President Trump’s “election integrity commission.”
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The ACLU Is Warning Americans That Thanks To Republicans It’s Not Safe To Travel In Texas
The ACLU has issued a travel alert warning Americans that they can anticipate having their constitutional rights violated if they travel to Texas.
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The ACLU Just Humiliated Trump By Calling His Religious Liberty Executive Order Fake News
The ACLU looked at Trump’s religious liberty executive order and determined that it was fake news.
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ACLU To Hold ‘Resistance Training’ So Americans Can Fight Trump’s Dangerous Policies
If Trump wants to push dangerous policies that fly in the face of American democracy, he’ll first have to get past a united and empowered opposition.
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Opinion: Republicans Grant Men, Even Rapists, Purview Over Women’s Bodies
“There is zero part of me that understands why a rapist or someone who got someone pregnant against their will, maybe incest, would have any right in that decision.â€
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Jeff Sessions Threatened With Lawsuit Just Minutes After Senate Confirmation
The ACLU continues to be on the front lines in the battle to resist the new administration.
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Trump Suffers First His Major Defeat As Judge Blocks Part Of His Muslim Ban
The ACLU sued President Trump and won in court, as a judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Muslim immigrants who are currently stranded at US airports.
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The ACLU Comes Out Fighting and Threatens to See Donald Trump In Court
The ACLU has a message for Donald Trump.
They are not impressed with many of Trump’s campaign promises, and threaten the new president-elect with court if he tries to implement them.
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Nonpartisan Bombshell Report Finds Major Trump Proposals All Violate The Constitution
A new analysis of Donald Trump’s proposals and plans by the ACLU revealed that a Trump presidency would violate numerous articles of the Constitution.
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Haters in Georgia Want Doctors in Jail for Performing What They Weren’t Told Were Illegal Abortions
CNN reported Friday that “For nearly seven months, it has been illegal for physicians in Georgia to provide abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — but almost no one knew it.” The culprit was a simple clerical error. Nothing nefarious. However, the error has huge ramifications, because while nobody knew it was illegal to provide…
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7-Year-Old Banished Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s Religious Freedom
In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was “banished” from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor, and a school administrator concluded that the child’s “bad ideas” persecuted (offended) another student.
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Too Bad Scott Walker, SCOTUS Doesn’t Think Forced Ultrasounds Are Cool
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
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Republicans Seek to Decriminalize Rape and Other Crimes Against Women
Republicans seek to assuage the crime of rape by redefining it to prevent women from abortion services, claiming it is a blessing or legislating medical instrument rape to teach women their place.
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Rick Scott Sues Homeland Security In Order to Cover Up His Constitutional Crimes
Rick Scott is suing the Department of Homeland Security in the name of accessing its database, but the real point is to distract from his planned purge’s violation of the constitution.
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Civil Liberties Not Part of the Republican Plan for America
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
