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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....

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”...

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."...

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"...

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.

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"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSxmyjKGEY

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.

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.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/cpd-stop-and-frisks-down-80-percent-in-2016/1182604/

“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:

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.

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/900472710354128896

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:

ACLU mistakenly posts most unfortunate tweet ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2017 5 Comments

Late last night a federal judge in Hawaii issued an Order scaling back the Trump administration's implementation of the Travel Order. The judge disagreed with the Trump administration as to who would be considered a “close familial relationship” under the Supreme Court's ruling. The Hawaii judge ruled that "grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins" would fall under that category, and thus be excluded from Travel Order bar to entry. The ACLU celebrated early this morning with a *most unfortunate* tweet:

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