Tag: ACLU

ACLU Launches National Ad Campaign Featuring Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” Highlighting Landmark Birthright Citizenship Supreme Court Case

Stuart Mitchell

The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a national ad campaign ahead of the organization’s April 1 arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on a landmark case challenging America’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship. The campaign, which represents an uplifting visual tapestry of what it means to be an American, features Bruce Springsteen’s iconic anthem “Born in the U.S.A.” In a rare move, Springsteen authorized the ACLU’s use of the song to highlight what’s at stake in the Supreme Court case, Trump v. Barbara, and how the constitutional guarantee of…

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Medical researchers win permanent restoration of research on federal website

Stuart Mitchell

Nearly a year after their scholarly research about endometriosis, suicide risk, and patient safety was removed from a government-hosted website because it included references to the LGBTQ+ community, two university researchers have secured a binding agreement requiring the government to maintain the court-ordered restoration of their and others’ work. The agreement prohibits the federal government from removing more research from the website in the future for the same ideological reasons. The Trump administration had removed the research in early 2025 in accordance with an executive order from the Trump administration…

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United We Dream, ACLU, and Partners Launch Historic $30 Million Dollar Fund to Scale Up Access to Lawyers for Families Fighting Wrongful Detention, Deportation

Stuart Mitchell

United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), have joined forces to launch the Defending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers. Already, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund has raised over $10 million with the goal of raising a total of at…

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Artists Mount First Amendment Challenge to New Grant Requirements by the National Endowment for the Arts

Stuart Mitchell

Artists and theater groups are challenging a new certification requirement and funding prohibition that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has imposed on grant applications. The NEA now requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding and blocks any projects that reasonably appear to “promote gender ideology” from getting an award. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Rhode Island, David Cole, and Lynette Labinger, cooperating counsel for the ACLU-RI, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court…

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ACLU Launches Storytelling Series Highlighting Harms of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies, How Communities Are Fighting Back

Stuart Mitchell

The American Civil Liberties Union launched recently a new storytelling series documenting the harms of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and how communities are fighting back. The multimedia series uplifts the voices of people nationwide – family members of undocumented people, teachers, activists, and more – and elevates the need for balanced and humane immigration policies. The project comes just thirty days after President Trump took office and reiterated his pledge to enact the largest mass deportation program in U.S. history. For weeks, the ACLU has collected stories anonymously from community members…

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