
ACLU Urges Discard of Refugee Law, Tells 2016 Candidates to ‘Reject Bigotry’
The ACLU is calling for presidential candidates “to oppose the exclusion of [foreign] individuals from the United States on the basis of religion or nationality.”

The ACLU is calling for presidential candidates “to oppose the exclusion of [foreign] individuals from the United States on the basis of religion or nationality.”

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Board Member in Colorado has resigned after making national news headlines for urging people to kill Donald Trump supporters.

“America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted on Monday to say that 700 body cameras would be distributed and issued to his deputies soon. He said, “I will be flipping the ON switch soon! Stay tuned.”

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has approved a new viciously anti-Israel ad that the state body had previously rejected. The poster, which showcases a picture of a child with the word “Violence” in bold print and large, capitalized letters,

This month the American Civil Liberties Union is set to release its new “Mobile Justice” smartphone app aimed at aiding citizens to record police and report purported misconduct.

A coalition that represents hundreds of pastors who opposed Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s pro-LGBT ordinance, are calling the resounding defeat of the Houston bathroom ordinance, a “national victory” and the local defeat of a national Leftist LGBT agenda.

The American Civil Liberties Union and a woman’s group that advocates for a woman’s right to expose her breasts in public are joining together to sue a Missouri city council over a new indecent exposure law that protesters say illegally limits the rights of free expression and maybe even breastfeeding moms.

LOS ANGELES — Members of the Black Lives Matter movement told a panel discussion at the first annual Politicon on Saturday that they see their efforts as part of the global left.

Activist immigration groups are firing racial profiling allegations against Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.

San Diego State University may expel two students for flying a U.S. flag, along with military flags, from their dormitory balcony.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma took a victory lap when an Oklahoma District Judge ordered the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the State Capitol grounds by October 12.

Union’s (ACLU) Florida Chapter and the Council Of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida are suing the state of Florida for purportedly denying Halal meals to Muslim convicts locked up in the Miami-Dade Country prison system.

Occupiers from Black Lives Matter and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) descended upon California’s capitol Wednesday by the hundreds, demanding state legislators pass a new bill on racial profiling, and calling on Governor Jerry Brown to sign it.

With the ACLU at its side, Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against Alabama following the state’s decision to terminate its Medicaid contract. This comes in the wake of the recent video scandal exposing the abortion provider’s practices of harvesting aborted baby body parts to sell on the open market.

Mercy Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Redding, California, capitulated to pressure from the ACLU and decided a pregnant woman could be given post-birth sterilization.

A federal judge in Phoenix ruled to allow attorneys representing immigrant rights groups to inspect four immigrant detention facilities in Arizona where the attorneys feel immigrants were held under “inhumane and punitive” conditions on August 14. The order comes following an enormous wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed the southwest border in the summer of 2014.

A poll conducted by Tulchin Research found that “69 percent” of California voters support passing a law that would require police to report each time they pull over a motorist who is black.

Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department was criticized for purportedly having stopped and checked a disproportionate number of blacks and even made more stops than departments in other cities. Now the department has agreed to outside monitoring of its “stop and frisk” practices.

According to the groups — which include the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, NAACP, La Raza, and MALDEF — the prosecution of illegal border crossing is the most prosecuted federal crime in the U.S. but, they charge, it does not meet the Justice Department’s standard for enforcement priorities.

On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, director of American Civil Liberties Union Cecillia Wang reacted to the media’s treatment of San Francisco, as well as other cities, for being a sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities are now under fire after Kate

Gov. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas is acting to protect clergy and religious organizations from punishment for refusing to recognize or provide services for same-sex marriages.

One governor is showing the way to stand up to anti-Judeo-Christian secularists assaulting Biblical values. On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin defied the state’s Supreme Court, asserting that the Ten Commandments monument stationed at the Capitol will remain despite the court’s ruling that it has to be removed.

Left-wingers are being asked to help telecommunications company CREDO Mobile decide how to distribute a bit of its wealth in July among three of its favorite organizations: the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Zinn Education Project.
Louisiana Governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal declared “I think the left wants to take God out of the public square” on Wednesday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel Jindal said the ACLU “used to be for religious

The ACLU — whose stated mission was once “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States” — now states that while the organization supported the RFRA when it was passed, “we can no longer support the law in its current form” because “it is now often used as a sword to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others.”