Principles Are Stubborn Things
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) poses a tough challenge to anyone who believes in individual liberty but doesn’t believe the Constitution to be a suicide pact.
ACRU: Judge in Hawaii Erred in ‘Travel Ban’ Case
The First Amendment “cannot be claimed by foreigners on foreign soil.”
ACRU Sues Broward over Voter Rolls
Florida’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote.
ACRU: Ruling Shows Mothers Are ‘Apparently Expendable’
U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion striking down health regulations on Texas abortion clinics will harm, not help women, group says.
ACRU: Voter ID Opponents Try End Run Around Court’s Shelby Ruling
Opponents of North Carolina’s voter photo ID law wrongly sought to use an illegal interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to attack North Carolina’s election integrity law.
ACRU to Supreme Court: Texas Abortion Clinic Law Protects Women
Texas’ law requiring widely adopted medical clinic safeguards in abortion facilities is constitutionally sound and ensures that women are not victimized by substandard care.
Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii
Hawaii’s Actions “Brazenly” Violate 15th Amendment, Brief States
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 24, 2015) — An emergency injunction is needed to stop a race-based election now underway in Hawaii and ending Nov. 30, a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Civil Rights Union argues.
“The government has been operating a brazenly racially based voter registration process,” the brief states. Submitted on behalf of the ACRU by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the brief in Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii notes that this is the second time that Hawaii has conducted a racially exclusionary election. The last time, appeals […]
ACRU Defends One-Person, One-Vote
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to determine whether only citizens get a political voice in America.
Counties Are Failing to Keep Voter Rolls Clean
This week, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit in federal court on ACRU’s behalf seeking to force Clarke County to comply with federal law and clean up its rolls.
Judge Rejects Dismissal, Grants ACRU Standing in Texas County Case
A federal judge has ruled that the American Civil Rights Union has standing to sue Zavala County, Texas, over its inflated voter registrations.