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For decades, local, state and federal public officials from both political parties and powerful interest groups engineered the system of mass incarceration. They did this in part by constructing a narrative of fear fueled by racism through which they passed laws, spent billions of dollars, and separated millions of families. It was a disaster of epic proportions that unfolded in slow motion and for which we are still paying the price today as a nation.
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By aclutn
Mar 02, 2017
Medical Associations, School Administrators, and More Submit Briefs to the Supreme Court in Support of Transgender Student
When then-15-year-old Gavin Grimm testified before his school board two and a half years ago, he didn’t anticipate that his fight to simply be himself would land him at the Supreme Court. And just a few short months from now, his case could change the legal landscape of transgender rights for generations.
Gavin Grimm is a boy from Gloucester County, V
By aclutn
Mar 01, 2017
Day 41: Stop legislative attempts to open the door for anti-LGBT discrimination
By Claire Gardner
Feb 28, 2017
The Trump Administration Is Threatening to Publicly Release the Private Data of Immigrants and Foreign Visitors
Over the last month, the Trump administration has waged a war on the rights of immigrants and foreigners — including by issuing a policy that strips away basic privacy protections that have been provided by Democratic and Republican presidents for decades.
This policy shift was tucked into Trump’s
By aclutn
Feb 28, 2017
Is Duane Buck Proof That the Supreme Court’s Moral Arc Is Bending Toward Racial Justice?
Thirty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Georgia’s administration of the death penalty despite the fact that a study had shown that even after controlling for many other variables, those who killed white victims were 4.3 times more likely to get the death penalty than those who killed black victims. The court called racial discrimination “inevitable” and turned a blind eye to evidence of systemic bias.
In more recent years, however, the court has begun to recognize the scourge of racism in the ad
By aclutn
Feb 28, 2017
The ACLU Remembers Aileen Hernandez
Aileen Hernandez, the first woman appointed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Council, co-founder of the National Organization for Women and its second president, and the vice chairperson of the ACLU’s National Advisory Council for more than two decades, passed away on February 13 in San Francisco, California, at the age of 90.
Hernandez graduated with honors from Howard University and forged her career in a highly segregated country a
By aclutn
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