ACLU Tag

ACLU Lawyer Coins New Term for Females: ‘Non-Transgender Women’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 23, 2025 52 Comments

Science is hard! The lawyer claimed Trump "is targeting trans people by focusing on retrenching this notion of a fixed gender binary at the time of conception." ...

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Kamala Harris in 2019: Cut ICE Funding, Pay for Illegal Aliens Sex Change Surgeries

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 09, 2024 9 Comments

“Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment."...

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Supreme Court Declines to Review Lower Court’s Decision in Key Transgender Case – ACLU Declares “Victory”

Posted by James Nault on January 17, 2024 45 Comments

Decision of Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appels said Indiana must allow transgender students to use school bathroom consistent with their gender identity - ACLU calls it a "victory" for transgender rights...

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ACLU Targets Tennessee Law Aimed at Reducing HIV Transmission by Prostitutes

Posted by Terrance Kible on November 01, 2023 23 Comments

The challengers argue the law criminalizes no-risk conduct, targets a disadvantaged group, and is counterproductive....

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Liberal Activist Groups Condemn Killing of Black Man Who Attacked Cop During Traffic Stop

Posted by Terrance Kible on October 24, 2023 131 Comments

"Yeah, bitch. Yeah, bitch," the man exclaimed while grabbing the sheriff deputy's throat shortly before being shot....

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Florida Supreme Court Allows 15-Week Abortion Law to Remain for Now, But Agreed to Hear Case

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 24, 2023 16 Comments

Planned Parenthood and ACLU wanted the Supreme Court to stop the law while the legal battles continue....

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ACLU of Virginia Tweets “You Are On Native Land” For Some Reason

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 27, 2022 44 Comments

The people of Twitter responded with humor, facts, and . . . of course, some leftie whining....

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Now I’ve Gone and Done It – I Offered An Opinion on The Depp-Heard Trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2022 51 Comments

On potential liability of The Washington Post. Oops, I did it again. I offered a second opinion, on the role of the ACLU....

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VIDEO: Former ACLU Head Ira Glasser Blasts Organization’s New Progressive Agenda

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 04, 2022 3 Comments

“There is a requirement now for ACLU lawyers that before they take a case defending someone’s free speech, they have to make sure that the speech doesn’t offend or threaten other civil liberties values”...

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Lancet Journal Apologizes After Referring to Women as ‘Bodies With Vaginas’ in Latest Edition

Posted by Stacey Matthews on September 29, 2021 50 Comments

"Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected," the Lancet Journal wrote in a piece on how "the silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains."...

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Michigan ACLU Blasts Central Michigan U. for Starting Golf Program, Calling it ‘the Whitest of Sports’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 26, 2021 11 Comments

"Country clubs that have been the training grounds for elite golfers have historically been racially exclusive"...

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ACLU Official Attacks Transylvania University for Admitting Nick Sandmann as a Student

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 09, 2020 58 Comments

Nicholas Sandmann, the young man who was smeared by the media for the sin of wearing a MAGA hat, and ended up speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention, has been accepted as a student at Transylvania University in Kentucky. As a result, an official at the ACLU is now attacking the school. This is unreal.

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ACLU Suing Betsy DeVos Over Changes to Title IX Policies on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 17, 2020 11 Comments

"seeks to block the Education Department's new provisions before they go into effect on Aug. 14"...

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Even the ACLU Opposes California’s Gun Confiscation Legislation

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on October 22, 2019 14 Comments

California recently pushed constitutionally guaranteed second amendment protections to the limit. So much so that they've drawn the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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ACLU, Planned Parenthood Sue Alabama Over Its Human Life Protection Law

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on May 25, 2019 17 Comments

On May 15, 2019, Alabama governor Kay Ivey (R) signed into law Alabama House Bill 314 (HB314), the "Human Life Protection Act."  The new law bans abortion in the state unless the life of the mother is at stake and goes into effect in November of this year.

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“ACLU Effect” — Profs find reduction in Chicago Stop and Frisk led to hundreds of additional killings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2018 69 Comments

Stop and Frisk policies are controversial because of claims of racial bias in implementation. In August 2015, the ACLU and the Chicago police department reached a consent agreement to scale back stop and frisk. The ACLU-Illinois website describes the accomplishment:

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Trump issues new Permanent Travel Order

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2017 31 Comments

It seems like ancient history, but the original and replacement Travel Orders were meant to be temporary, to provide time for a security review. Those Orders were demagogued as "Muslim bans" when they clearly were not. They applied to the seven highest risk countries for terrorist visa infiltration as identified by the Obama Department of Homeland Security. What ensued were outrageous lower and appeals court decisions against the Travel Orders that read frequently like political manifestos.

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ACLU recants tweet featuring white child, agrees it’s racist

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on August 25, 2017 33 Comments

In one of the dumber things to have happened this week (and that's a title that's increasingly difficult to bestow), the ACLU sent what to most normal people would be a perfectly acceptable tweet. This one:

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