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ACLU wrote a new diary post: My Name Is Ceara Sturgis, and I Am Not a Troublemaker
By Ceara Sturgis When graduating senior Ceara Sturgis chose to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook photo, rather than the drape typically reserved for girls, her school responded by excluding her entirely from the senior portrait section of the yearbook. The ACLU represented Ceara in a sex discrimination lawsuit against her school district. Let me explain. [...] -
ACLU wrote a new diary post: Historic Advance for LGBT International Human Rights
By Ian Thompson, Legislative Representative, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Tuesday marked a historic commitment by the United States to the cause of LGBT international human rights. First, President Obama issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons. The memorandum represents [...]
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: Tennessee Principal’s Reaction to GSA T-Shirt Raises the Question: Who’s Really Causing the Disruption Here?
By Amanda Goad, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT Project Chris Sigler is a senior at Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tennessee. It’s a tradition among Sequoyah students to get friends’ signatures on a keepsake T-shirt, so in past years Chris has done that on a shirt labeled "California" and one with the name of his favorite band. This year, [...]
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: Immigration Policy in the Obama Years: Dragnet Enforcement First and Foremost?
By Chris Rickerd, ACLU Washington Legislative Office In El Paso last month, President Obama gave a speech on immigration reform in which he said: "I know that the increase in deportations has been a source of controversy. But I want to emphasize: we are not doing this haphazardly; we are focusing our limited resources on violent offenders and [...]
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: The Other Front: Military Rape Survivors Denied Abortion Coverage
By Jessica Kenyon We are defending a Constitution that doesn’t apply to us. This was a phrase I heard often after I joined the U.S. Army in 2005. At the time, I didn’t realize just how true that would be. I was raped by a fellow soldier when I was stationed in Korea. I found out I [...]
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: Wichita Blues: Kansas Mandates Photo ID For Its Voters
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: Calling The Police Can Get You Evicted
By Katie Miller, Litigation Fellow, & Sandra Park, Staff Attorney, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Across the country, a growing number of cities are adopting nuisance ordinances that impose fines and criminal penalties on landlords and tenants when the police are called too many times to the property. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, landlords may be fined if the police [...]
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ACLU wrote a new diary post: Homeland Security Wants to See You Naked
By Sam Ritchie, ACLU Yesterday, in a guest opinion column for USA Today , Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made a plea to the American public to cooperate with the Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) efforts to virtually strip-search air travelers this holiday season. In her piece, she repeated misleading and inaccurate claims about the effectiveness of strip-search machines — [...]
