ACLU Outrages
ACLU Attacks Proposition 8, California, and the Concept of Democracy
November 9, 2008The California Supreme Court amended the stateâs constitution to find a right for homosexual marriage. Then the people of California used the same constitution for an initiative to define marriage in the constitution as between one man and one woman....
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union has Plans
November 3, 2008How the American Civil Liberties Union in their own words would destroy American Security in a time of war....
Read moreACLU Lawyers are Ready to Roll on Election Day
November 2, 2008The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Wall Street Journal today, 1 November, 2008. The title of this article is, "Will this Election be Stolen?" It was written by Hans...
Read moreACLU Supports Fraudulent Voting in Georgia
October 27, 2008A federal appeals court in Georgia is the latest venue where the ACLU is fighting to keep illegal "voters" on the rolls. The requirement to use Social Security and drivers license records to confirm that new registrations are what...
Read moreACLU Favors Criminals (As Always)
October 21, 2008A study commissioned by the ACLU of 810,000 traffic stops by Los Angeles police has found that such arrests were racially motivated. Original studies of the data showed no such results. But a Yale professor "re-examined" the data, to...
Read moreFederal Court Throws Out Michigan Law, Helps Illegal Voters
October 13, 2008A federal judge, on an emergency basis, has thrown out two Michigan laws designed to take non-residents off the states' voter rolls. At the behest of the ACLU, he struck two different state laws, and ordered 1,438 "voters" back onto...
Read moreACLU Supports Obama Supporters on School Time
October 12, 2008A New York City teachers union has filed suit in federal court attacking a Department of Education policy that teachers should not engage in politicking on school grounds and times. In line with ACLU policies, they seek the right...
Read moreACLU Favors Keeping Repeat Drunk Drivers on the Road
October 1, 2008Ohio has tightened up its drunk driving laws in several ways which make it easier to convict repeat drunk drivers, and places higher penalties on them when convicted more than once. Ignoring the safety issues, the ACLU has opposed this...
Read moreACLU Favors More Auto Accidents and Deaths
September 15, 2008A federal judge in California has just accepted as constitutional a state law under which the cars of unlicensed drivers were seized for up to 30 days. "Civil rights attorneys" using arguments like the ACLU's had challenged the law, especially...
Read moreACLU Supports Anarchists, Will Seek Payoffs
September 8, 2008The police in St. Paul were well prepared for the protestors / anarchists at the Republican Convention in that City, because they had infiltrated the group. They knew their intentions to destroy property and attack police and delegates with wooden...
Read moreACLU Opposes Common Sense in California
September 3, 2008The California legislature has just passed two similar bills, intended to deal with the problem of street criminals stealing auto converters, air conditioner coils, and church roofs, and such, to sell as scrap metal. The only opposition to these bills...
Read moreACLU Opposes Three-Strikes Law
August 12, 2008Connecticut is seeking to tighten its three-strikes law, under which violent felons on their third conviction should be sentenced to life without parole. The Connecticut law has a loophole. If the criminal pleads guilty to his latest felony, the...
Read moreACLU Opposes Insurance Benefit because Companies "Make Money"
August 6, 2008Five American states now have programs that offer "pay-as-you-drive" insurance policies. These offer rate discounts up to 60% for drivers who agree to have "black boxes" installed to record miles driven and driving habits. An ACLU state executive director...
Read moreUpdate on ACLU, Illegal Aliens in Hazleton
July 30, 2008When a federal judge two years ago struck down the efforts of residents and officials of Hazleton to protect themselves from crimes by illegal aliens, it was the first such case. Now there are several cases, some in which...
Read moreACLU Targets Effective Police Work
July 22, 2008The ACLU has objected to the use of "jump-out squads" in high crime areas of Elsmere and Wilmington, Delaware, which target parolees and habitual criminals. The results are that significant numbers of criminals are being taken off the streets...
Read moreACLU Attacks US Terrorist List
July 17, 2008The ACLU has issued a press release decrying the addition of the one millionth name to the Terrorist Watch List of the Department of Homeland Security. It brought forward just two people who were inconvenienced by the list. It...
Read moreACLU Attitudes Infest the Ford Foundation
July 9, 2008The Ford Foundation has just appointed a longtime administrator for the ACLU to head the Foundation's international program that instructs people in other nations how to build their laws and societies. The bottom line is that disrespect for the...
Read moreACLU Attacks Lifelong Tradition at Naval Academy
July 2, 2008The ACLU has threatened to sue the Naval Academy to end a tradition as old as the Academy itself. Before noon meals in King Hall, midshipmen may voluntarily participate in non-sectarian prayers. The Academy has officially rejected the objection letter...
Read moreSanctuary Insanity in San Francisco
July 2, 2008It is perhaps not surprising that San Francisco has provided the ultimate example in civic madness of where the concept of "sanctuary city" can lead. After being caught flying "juvenile" drug dealers back to their home countries accompanied by city...
Read moreACLU, Live and Uncut on TV
June 16, 2008Arianna Huffington's blog, in conjunction with The Nation magazine, has created a series of five "conversation" videos entitled "This Brave Nation." The third in the series pairs the Executive Director of the ACLU with a "video peace activist." It...
Read moreACLU to Raise $335 Million to Attack the US Heartland
June 10, 2008The ACLU has just announced a $335 million fund-raising campaign intended to strengthen its operations in "heartland" states. In most cases, it will publicly attack in court and out, positions on issues such as "immigrants' rights, gay rights, and...
Read moreCalifornia About to Invade Charitable Bedrooms
June 2, 2008The California Assembly has already passed, and its Senate is now considering, a "diversity" bill that would require all of its major foundations to report information on the racial and sexual backgrounds of all of their boards and staffs,...
Read moreACLU Supports Invasion of Washington
May 28, 2008The town of Mattawa in Washington State has been overrun by new "residents" who are almost entirely illegal aliens from Mexico. The response of the federal government has been to force this town of several hundred legal, English-speaking residents,...
Read moreEquality' for Homosexuals, Down East?
May 22, 2008The ACLU and its homosexual "rights" allies in Maine are up in arms over a proposed citizens' initiative there, which would define marriage as involving one man and one woman, and would withdraw public money and support from several...
Read moreACLU Wants to Trap Children in Bad Schools
May 19, 2008The ACLU and its allies among the national and state teachers unions have attacked school voucher programs wherever they appear. Though the US Supreme Court and several state high courts have ruled in favor of vouchers that provide state aid...
Read moreACLU Loses, Common Sense Wins, in Voter ID Case
April 28, 2008By a vote of 6-3, the US Supreme Court has upheld the Indiana Voter ID Law, which required voters there to establish who they are and that they are legal residents of Indiana before they vote. Similar laws have been...
Read moreACLU Assault on National Motto, Fails Again
April 22, 2008The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article on Fox News on April 18. "In God We Trust" is the official Motto of the United States. It appears on coins and bills produced by...
Read moreACLU: Hobble War Effort with Partisan Politics
April 15, 2008The ACLU has called on Congress to "demand the appointment of an Independent Counsel" to investigate the "approval of the use of torture" by the Bush Administration. The claimed facts are unsourced. And compared to the ACLU's silence during Democrat...
Read moreACLU Aiding America's Enemies, Again
April 8, 2008The ACLU, the Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Janet Reno (former Clinton Attorney General) have joined forces to turn the military trials of some of America's most dedicated enemies, into media circuses with a maximum of delays. The facts for...
Read moreTeacher Testing in Massachusetts, Biased Against Incompetence
April 7, 2008The Massachusetts Senate is considering waivers for teachers who fail the teacher licensing exam three times in a row. This is despite the fact that the test has been dumbed down to the 10th grade level. In some states, such...
Read moreThe ACLU wants sex offenders near your children
April 3, 2008The ACLU in the city of Dover, New Hampshire filed suit last week over an ordinance that prohibits where convicted sex offenders can live - namely keeping them from day care centers and elementary schools. In response, The American Civil...
Read moreColumbia Professor and ACLU Claim Blacks Are Jailed for No Reason
March 24, 2008[Short Version] An African-American professor at Columbia has written an article, based on ACLU statistics, claiming that American states are incarcerating black men at higher rates, and expelling black students at higher rates, because they want to teach them that...
Read moreACLU Wants the US to Lose the War on Terrorism
March 17, 2008The ACLU is continuing its efforts to shield terrorists in US hands from the consequences of their actions. It seeks to prevent their trial and execution, which the Supreme Court has ruled legal. It seeks to prevent their interrogation for...
Read moreThe ACLU Gets "Behind" Civil Liberties
March 10, 2008The ACLU has applauded as a "civil rights victory" a $65,000 settlement for a small-town art teacher who was fired from his job for painting paintings on the Internet with his butt. Yes, you read that right. It says what...
Read moreACLU Doesn't Want to Pay Taxes; Expects Churches to Pay Them
March 2, 2008The ACLU is currently suing in Alaska courts to remove the property tax exemption from church owned properties. From the story: The ACLU wants Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Spaan to throw out a 2006 state law exempting church-owned religious...
Read moreChildren Killed and Stolen From, Thanks to the ACLU
February 25, 2008Four school children were killed in Minnesota, when a women driving a van apparently ran a stop sign, struck and overturned a school bus. The woman had no drivers license, gave an apparent false name, and admitted that she was...
Read moreThe National Conference on Organized Resistance
February 18, 2008A publicly supported institution, American University in D.C., is hosting, yet again, The National Conference on Organized Resistance. It offers workshops on assorted loony-left ideas, which are also supported by the ACLU, such as open borders with Mexico. But it...
Read moreSince When are Driver's Licenses a Civil Right
February 12, 2008This time the ACLU is has sued the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Indiana claiming that having a driver's license is a "civil right." The ACLU is seeking to maintain some 56,000 drivers' licenses containing outdated or incorrect information under...
Read moreSex Worker Show at William and Mary
February 5, 2008The facts for this outrage, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article published in the Newport News Daily Press on 28 January, 2008. The President of the College of William and Mary gave students at the college permission...
Read moreThe ACLU recently announced what they called the "10 ways our government
January 31, 2008The ACLU announced the following picks for what they claim are "10 ways our government failed us in 2007." Leaving no morsel of our government untouched, the list is a disgrace to America's legislative and executive system. The American Civil...
Read moreThe ACLU is supporting terrorists by opposing the Department of Homeland Security's Real ID Act.
January 15, 2008The Real ID Act was created by DHS after 9/11 to make it harder for terrorists and illegal immigrants to obtain government issued identification. This new secure identification program was passed into law in 2005 and the government plans to...
Read moreThe ACLU is assisting illegal immigrants - again!
January 11, 2008This time the fight is in the State of Indiana where the ACLU is trying to stop a bill to penalize businesses for hiring illegal immigrants, claiming that only the federal government has authority over controlling illegal immigration According to...
Read moreEinstein's ideas not welcome in the classroom, but extortion may be?
January 3, 2008In a letter written to the Florida State Board of Education, the ACLU supports new science curriculum that is exclusively evolution-based, claiming that teaching other scientific explanations forces religion upon students. The ACLU wants to stop the kind of scientific...
Read moreHatred is as American as Apple Pie
December 12, 2007A federal appeals court in St. Louis has issued a preliminary decision that laws which controlled a so-called Kansas church from displaying hate signs near funerals of American servicemen, violate the First Amendment rights of the "church." Signs which said "God Hates Fags" and "God Loves Dead American Soldiers" were not forbidden altogether, but only within a certain distance of such funerals.
Read moreA Broken Homosexual Marriage Cannot be Fixed in Rhode Island
December 12, 2007A homosexual couple who got "married" in Massachusetts, sought a "divorce" in Rhode Island. The high court in that state ruled, 3-2, that since homosexuals cannot marry in that state, they cannot divorce there. The court added that any change was "up to the legislature."
Read moreOklahoma Law on Illegal Immigration Stands
November 2, 2007Oklahoma passed a law to discourage businesses in that state from hiring illegal aliens, and property owners from renting to illegal aliens, similar to laws passed in Hazleton, Penn., and Farmers Branch, Tex. But in Oklahoma, the federal judge considering...
Read morePotty-Mouthed 'Church' Loses $11 M
November 2, 2007The so-called church from Topeka, Kansas, whose members go around the country to demonstrate at funerals of Americans killed in war, has just suffered a $10.9 verdict from a federal jury in Baltimore. Albert Snyder, father of Marine Lance Cpl....
Read moreACLU Supports the Right of Senators to Seek Sex in Airport Bathrooms
September 26, 2007The facts for this comment, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article published in the Minnesota Monitor on 25 September. The Minnesota prosecutors have filed their response to the plea by Senator Larry Craig's attorneys filed in an...
Read moreMarines Denied Right to Film in San Francisco
September 26, 2007The facts for this comment, but not the legal conclusions, came from an article published on KGO7 TV on September 24. The US Marines proposed to shoot a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco, as they already had...
Read moreNew Jersey Says Methodists Can't Be Methodists
September 26, 2007The facts for this comment come from a Press Release of the Institute on Religion and Democracy on 20 September. (Ordinarily, a press release from an interested party would not be used as the basis of a comment. But the...
Read moreACLU Settles One Alien Case, Allies File Another
September 7, 2007The ACLU has settled one case against Homeland Security concerning a holding facility in Texas for whole families of illegal aliens. At the same time, one of the largest, most left-wing unions in the US files a new suit against...
Read moreAttorney General of New Jersey Fronts for the ACLU
August 29, 2007The Attorney General of New Jersey has joined with the US Attorney for that state, to tell the Mayor of Morristown that his police should not check the immigration status of most of the people they question and arrest. They did this despite the fact that the bodies are not yet cold in the ground from the assassination of three people in that state by an illegal immigrant who could have and should have been either in jail or thrown out of the US at the time he (according to witnesses) did the killings.
Read moreACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project
May 8, 2007AP: ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled "Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs." It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story. The...
Read moreVicious Murderer to Have Another Hearing
May 1, 2007Vicious Murderer to Have Another Hearing Smith v. Texas, No. 05-11304, was decided by the Supreme Court on 25 April, in a sharply divided 5-4 decision. The convicted murderer was arguing against his death penalty sentence, in accord with the...
Read moreACLU Gets It Dead Wrong in Indiana
May 1, 2007ACLU Gets It Dead Wrong in Indiana The ACLU in Indiana has just filed suit against the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles on behalf of a tree-hugger who doesn't like religion. Does that sound unfair? Here are the facts, from...
Read moreACLU Against Wisconsin, Round II
May 1, 2007ACLU Against Wisconsin, Round II A common tactic of the ACLU when it loses a point in the political process, is to use the judicial process to trump democracy, when the people fail to see the wisdom of the ACLU...
Read moreACLU Against Wisconsin, Round I
May 1, 2007ACLU Against Wisconsin, Round I The facts for this piece come from an article, but not the legal conclusions, in The Wall Street Journal on 21 April. It noted that $40 million was spent on all races for the state...
Read moreNinth Circuit Helps ACLU "Cleanse" Library of Worship
April 11, 2007Ninth Circuit Helps ACLU "Cleanse" Library of Worship The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article on 23 March in the Washington Examiner by Quin Hilyer. It recited that the US Ninth Circuit Court...
Read moreACLU Displays its Paranoia
April 11, 2007ACLU Displays its Paranoia The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article in the Boston Globe on 26 March. The title of the article is, "Inhumane raid was just one of many (Endgame)." It...
Read moreBoy Scouts Win One against the ACLU
April 11, 2007Boy Scouts Win One against the ACLU The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from a press release by the Boy Scouts of America. On April 4, 2007, the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed...
Read moreACLU Files a Useless Case, for Cash
March 23, 2007ACLU Files a Useless Case, for Cash The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an Associated Press article on 2 March, 2007. It reported that the ACLU had sued the City of Lake Forest, in...
Read moreACLU Promotes Homosexuality in High School
January 22, 2007According to an Associated Press release datelined Cleveland, Georgia, "White County school officials and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over a student gay rights club, the ACLU said Wednesday." The student club is...
Read moreACLU Supports Corrupt Voter Registration
January 22, 2007Facts for this, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article published in the Baltimore Sun on 12 January, 2007. The ACLU has sued the Maryland Transit Authority over rules the MTA established to require anyone seeking to solicit...
Read moreACLU Opposes All Methods of Protecting Americans
January 22, 2007The facts for this, but not the legal conclusions, come from a daily briefing on war security matters, published on 18 January, 2007, on GovExec.com. It begins by recounting the fact that this week, Attorney General Gonzales "took heat" from...
Read moreACLU Succeeds at Blackmail
January 22, 2007The facts for this, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article posted on "Eyewitness News," Channel 24, in Memphis. Tennessee, on 12 January, 2007. One of the objectives of the ACLU is to transfer taxpayer funds into...
Read moreACLU Says, "Dump Handicapped Children"
December 12, 2006The facts for this article, but not the legal analysis, come from the Tucson Citizen of 15 November, 2006. The newspaper filed this article saying that the ACLU of Arizona and People for the American Way had just filed suit...
Read moreThe ACLU as the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
December 12, 2006The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran the story that is the basis of this item. It's hard to say why, since the story is about a town in West Virginia, but here it is. On December 1st, the Seattle newspaper ran the...
Read moreACLU Urges End to Decency Standards on TV
December 12, 2006This story is taken from an ACLU press release on its own website on 30 November, 2006. Despite the source, it is possible to read between the lines and determine what is actually happening. The ACLU has filed a brief...
Read moreACLU Sues Police to Protect Illegal Aliens
December 12, 2006The background for this comment came from an article published by Channel 7 News in Boston on its website. It credited the Associated Press with the story. The ACLU sued the State Police in Rhode Island, seeking the release of...
Read moreACLU Protection of a Pedophile
December 12, 2006Part of the information for this item comes from an article published by World Net Daily on 25 November, 2006. The rest of it comes from personal research by the author. Andrew Douglas Reed, of Asheville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty...
Read moreACLU Supports the "Right" to Defecate in the Street
October 30, 2006On 18 October the ACLU (presumably the California Branch) filed suit against the City of Fresno, claiming that it was violating the rights of homeless people by bulldozing their tent towns and destroying their personal property. The lawsuit filed in...
Read moreACLU Supports the Right to Vote Even If You're Dead or Foreign
October 30, 2006When the House passed the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006, requiring photo IDs for voters in future federal elections, the ACLU issued a statement saying that, "Less than two months after the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, the...
Read moreACLU Drops Patriot Act Challenge
October 30, 2006The Associated Press reported on 28 October that the ACLU has dropped its challenge to the Patriot Act claiming that "due to changes made in the law in its recent reenactment," the Act was now acceptable. The ACLU had filed...
Read moreACLU: "The most conservative organization in America?"
October 30, 2006On October 17, the ACLU ran a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, describing itself as "the most conservative organization in America." The ACLU asserted that, "Since its founding, the ACLU has fought to conserve the system of checks and...
Read moreACLU Attacks ACLU over "Partisan" Ads
October 30, 2006According to the New York Sun, the Connecticut ACLU has gotten into a spat with the national ACLU over ads the latter ran in that state. The ads attacked Senator Joe Lieberman for his pending support for the Terrorism Detainee...
Read moreCommon Sense Wins, ACLU Loses, in Arizona
September 29, 2006An article in Jurist, Legal News and Research, published at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on 12 September, 2006, reported a federal trial court decision in favor of photo voter ID as a prerequisite of voting. This decision...
Read moreACLU Uses Fear Tactics against Small Town
September 29, 2006The LaCrosse Tribune on 16 September, 2006, ran an article describing how the Town of Arcadia, Wisconsin, caved in before financial threats from the ACLU. The Mayor had proposed five ordinances, which the City Council seemed likely to approve. They...
Read moreThe ACLU Defends Illegals in Los Angeles
September 29, 2006An article in World Net Daily on 16 September, 2006, described an ACLU-sponsored effort to support Special Order 40 of the Los Angeles Police Department. This Order requires the police in that City to refuse to ask for and act...
Read moreNinth Circuit Helps ACLU Sabotage the First Amendment. Again?
September 29, 2006The Mercury News published on 20 September, 2006, an article about a split decision by a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, rejecting the use of a community building in a Contra Costa library. Though the article does...
Read moreACLU Thinks American Elections Should not be Restricted to American Voters
September 29, 2006The House of Representatives has followed a growing trend in state legislatures to pass laws requiring voters to obtain - usually free - some form of photo ID to show before they cast their votes. Several states have passed such...
Read moreACLU Part of Mexican-Affiliated Open Borders Group
September 29, 2006The Associated Press wrote a story published in the Arizona Star on August 24 about a "new civil rights group" which is objecting to certain policies of the US Border Patrol. What the AP failed to report is that this...
Read moreACLU Thinks is Just Fine for Pregnant Women to Abuse Drugs
September 28, 2006ACLU Press Release - 8/3/2006 The ACLU of Maryland has saluted a decision by the Maryland Court of Appeals that the state’s “reckless endangerment” statute does not apply to women who knowingly take drugs while pregnant. The ACLU was representing...
Read moreACLU Attacks Katrina Hurricane Cross Memorial
September 28, 2006New Orleans Times-Picayune - 8/6/2006 The ACLU of Louisiana has advised officials of the St. Bernard Parish not to build a memorial to the victims of Hurricane Katrina which would feature as part of it, a cross. The ACLU wants...
Read moreThe ACLU Sides with Illegal Immigrants
September 28, 2006Rhode Island Westerly Sun - 8/8/2006 A Rhode Island State Police trooper was following proper procedure when he asked 14 passengers in a van – all illegal immigrants – to produce identification following a traffic stop on a state route....
Read moreACLU Fights Anti-Crime Late Night Youth Curfew
September 28, 2006Yakima Herald-Republic - 8/14/2006 The City Council of Yakima, Washington, is planning to vote on a late night curfew for the city’s teenagers under age 18. The curfew would run from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and...
Read moreACLU Threatens Florida Town over Planned Illegal Immigration Ordinance
September 28, 2006ACLU Press Release - 8/15/2006 The ACLU of Florida has sent a letter to the city of Palm Bay opposing the city’s proposed anti-illegal immigration ordinance. It claims that local governments have no right to police illegal immigration and...
Read moreACLU Sues Town Over Illegal Immigration Crackdown
September 28, 2006Associated Press - 8/16/2006 The ACLU has sued the town of Hazelton, Pennsylvania over one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants by a U.S. city. Hazelton officials have passed a law that would fine landlords $1000 for renting to...
Read moreACLU Continues to Fight Katrina Hurricane Cross Memorial
September 28, 2006Los Angeles Times - 8/16/2006 The ACLU of Louisiana has stepped up its demands that the St. Bernard Parish not build a memorial to the victims of Hurricane Katrina which would feature as part of it, a cross. The ACLU...
Read moreACLU Defends High School Boy Who Dresses as a Girl
September 28, 2006WPMI-TV, - 8/16/2006 Despite a Pace, Florida high school dress code that requires “students whose personal attire distracts other students shall make alterations before entering the classroom,” the ACLU is defending a boy who chooses to wear a dress to...
Read moreACLU Fights Los Angeles to Allow Homeless to “Camp” on Sidewalks
September 28, 2006Los Angeles Times - 8/22/2006 Los Angeles has passed an ordinance which makes it illegal for anyone to “camp on public sidewalks.” The ACLU has filed suit against that ordinance, which has been held-up by federal court order in April,...
Read moreACLU Attacks New York’s JFK Airport Officials Targeting of Muslims
September 28, 2006Newsday - 8/24/2006 The ACLU and other groups are attacking the profiling by Homeland Security officers at Kennedy Airport in New York City of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers. The ACLU and other groups held a news conference in...
Read moreACLU Threat Changes Hurricane Katrina Prayer Service
September 28, 2006KATC-TV, New Orleans - 8/24/2006 The ACLU of Louisiana threatened to sue the City of New Orleans over a planned prayer service to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As a result, the City promptly caved in to the...
Read moreACLU Attacks Anti-Illegal Immigration Policy at Schools
September 28, 2006WNBC-TV - 9/1/2006 Americans who do not have young children may not know this, but federal law now requires that parents obtain Social Security numbers for their school-aged children. Many New Jersey schools are asking students to provide their SS...
Read moreACLU Attacks Mickey Mouse?
September 28, 2006WKMG-TV - 9/1/2006 For years, Walt Disney World in Florida has been reading the shape of visitors’ fingers on its property. Now the upgraded machines scan fingerprint information. The technology does not store the entire fingerprint image and scanned information...
Read moreACLU Files Lawsuit Against Anti-Voter Fraud Measure
September 28, 2006St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 9/4/2006 One City (Albuquerque, NM) and several states have passed similar laws which require photo ID for voters in their jurisdictions. These laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some the photo IDs are mandatory...
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