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Mar 15, 2024

Why Allowing Chaplains in Public Schools Harms Students

Youth & Student Rights
Across the country, efforts to install chaplains in public schools threaten to undermine students’ religious freedom rights and their well-being. Here’s what you need to know.
Across the country, efforts to install chaplains in public schools threaten to undermine students’ religious freedom rights and their well-being. Here’s what you need to know.
A group of kids moving in a school hallway.
A group of kids moving in a school hallway.
Mar 14, 2024

"We Do No Such Thing": What the 303 Creative Decision Means and Doesn't Mean for Anti-Discrimination and Public Accommodation Laws

LGBTQ+ Rights
Businesses offering expressive services do not have a First Amendment right to refuse to serve customers based on their identity. The SCOTUS decision merely recognizes a business’s right to choose not to sell...
Businesses offering expressive services do not have a First Amendment right to refuse to serve customers based on their identity. The SCOTUS decision merely recognizes a business’s right to choose not to sell...
A Pride supporter (whose face cannot be seen) holds an Intersex-inclusive Pride Flag in their hair while facing the Supreme Court.
A Pride supporter (whose face cannot be seen) holds an Intersex-inclusive Pride Flag in their hair while facing the Supreme Court.
Mar 11, 2024

How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech

Privacy & Technology
Consumer privacy laws should strengthen free speech protections online, and vice versa. Here’s how it can be done.
Consumer privacy laws should strengthen free speech protections online, and vice versa. Here’s how it can be done.
A gavel on a laptop.
A gavel on a laptop.
Mar 8, 2024

Despair and Resignation Are Not A Strategy: How to Fight Back In A Second Trump Term.

Voting Rights
The ACLU has the battle-tested playbook to defend civil rights and liberties. Should we face a second Trump administration, we’re ready.
The ACLU has the battle-tested playbook to defend civil rights and liberties. Should we face a second Trump administration, we’re ready.
Donald Trump speaks at campaign event.
Donald Trump speaks at campaign event.
Mar 6, 2024

MEDIA RECAP: The Ineffectiveness and Harms of Recriminalizing Drug Addiction

Criminal Justice

Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.

Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.

Kermit the frog meme "we're not saying we told you so..."
Kermit the frog meme "we're not saying we told you so..."
Mar 4, 2024

President Biden's Order to Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service

Criminal Justice
Three years after President Biden ordered federal agencies to end prison profiteering, the Marshals Service continues to sidestep the ban.
Three years after President Biden ordered federal agencies to end prison profiteering, the Marshals Service continues to sidestep the ban.
Entrance to the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons in Brooklyn, NY.
Entrance to the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons in Brooklyn, NY.