Figures across the entertainment industry are coming together to stand with Jimmy Kimmel. On Monday, Sept. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union published a letter pushing back against “government threats to our freedom of speech” in the wake of the talk show host’s “indefinite” suspension last week following the death …
Read More »ACLU Demands SCOTUS Block Next Round of Deportations to El Salvador
Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to deport a new group of Venezuelan men detained in Texas, said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in an emergency Friday court filing. ACLU lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to justify sending migrants to …
Read More »ACLU Sues Trump for Targeting Trans Americans — Who Are Confused and Terrified
Miles and his wife applied for passports in December. Eleven days later, his wife, a cis woman, received her new passport in the mail but Miles, a trans man, didn’t. His passport application status is currently “on hold,” and he says the last time he called to ask about it, …
Read More »Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship? ACLU Sues to Block 'Unconstitutional' Order
Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship is perhaps his most disturbing — representing a direct challenge to the plain language of the U.S. Constitution. It may also be one of the most straightforward Trump actions to reverse. Before Day One was over, the American Civil Liberties Union …
Read More »California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons
Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating voluntary work programs with a focus on rehabilitation. As of Wednesday evening, Proposition 6 was trailing …
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