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The Kendrick Consent Decree: Your First Amendment Rights in Memphis
The Kendrick Consent Decree protects your right to speak, organize, protest, and associate freely without fear that Memphis police are building a file on you for doing so. The post The Kendrick Consent Decree: Your First Amendment Rights in Memphis appeared first on ACLU of…
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What’s on the ballot in Tennessee?
Three constitutional amendments on bail, property taxes, and victims’ rights are on Tennessee’s November ballot. See where we stand. The post What’s on the ballot in Tennessee? appeared first on ACLU of Tennessee .
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Trump’s Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination, Explained
Gillian Branstetter, Communications Strategist Donald Trump was re-elected president on a wave of attacks against women and transgender people. Anti-transgender politicians spent more than $215 million on ads scapegoating trans people and promoting a Project 2025 agenda that…
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Banning TikTok is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In.
Ashley Gorski, she/her, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project Patrick Toomey, Deputy Director, ACLU National Security Project Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in one of the most important First Amendment cases of our time: TikTok v. Garland. Brought…
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Meet the Tennessee family behind the US Supreme Court’s major transgender health care case
By Melissa Brown, Nashville Tennessean This article was published in the Tennessean on Nov. 21 On a mild February evening in Nashville, a curly-haired teenager and her dad climbed the steps to the public gallery of the Tennessee Senate, where a group of lawmakers in the chamber…
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How the ACLU Will Fight Four More Years of Trump
Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director The results of the election are in: Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States. Trump’s win comes after a campaign in which he consistently targeted immigrants, transgender youth, and other vulnerable communities with…
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Anti-trans laws may complicate access to the ballot for trans voters
In Kansas, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union have drafted a letter reminding election workers that a gender marker on a person’s identification does not need to match or correspond to a voter’s gender expression. Staff for the organization have also held clinics…
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ACLU-TN urges Rutherford county schools to not ban books from school libraries
contact your Rutherford County school board member Learn more about how to combat classroom censorship in your district Via Email September 16, 2024 Dear Ms. Maxwell and RCS Board of Education Members: I write to you on behalf of concerned students and parents of Rutherford…
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The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained.
Gillian Branstetter, Communications Strategist Since 2021, 24 states have banned hormone therapy for transgender youth with gender dysphoria. Leading medical experts and organizations — such as the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the…
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Fighting Back Against Discriminatory Laws That Impact People Living with HIV
Michelle Anderson As a Black transgender woman and a former sex worker, it’s not unusual for me to face harassment and profiling from police. Regardless of whether we’re engaged in sex work or not, police frequently target transgender women like myself for searches and arrest,…