ACLU Litigator Among Newsom's 18 New Judicial Appointees Gov. Gavin Newsom gave interim appointments to four candidates who were elected to judgeships in March. The appointments allow them to serve as judges before their terms begin in January. 05/3/2024 - 3:45 pm | View Link
ACLU sues IU over alleged First Amendment violations during campus protests Protesters hold hands at Indiana University's Dunn Meadow demonstration on April 27, 2024. The ACLU of Indiana sued Indiana University Friday, saying it violated First Amendment rights by banning certain protesters from campus. (Jacob Spudich /The Indiana ... 05/3/2024 - 5:07 am | View Link
ACLU urges Tennessee gov. to veto ‘abortion trafficking’ bill The ACLU has sent a letter to Governor Bill Lee urging him to veto the so-called “abortion trafficking” bill passed by the state legislature during the last week of the session. “This bill harms young people’s ability to access the support of those they trust when they need it most and is an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment right to free speech and expression, 05/1/2024 - 7:53 am | View Link
ACLU files lawsuit to restore gender-neutral drivers license designations An ACLU-backed lawsuit to force Arkansas to restore its gender-neutral X option on state-issued IDs was filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Tuesday. 04/30/2024 - 1:09 pm | View Link
ACLU-Mass. calls on feds to not infringe on free students’ speech rights But schools must allow students to engage in political speech — even if such speech is deeply troubling to some other students,” the ACLU of Massachusetts wrote in its letter. 04/29/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920. The organization strives "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." The ACLU works through litigation and lobbying and has more than 1,800,000 members as of July 2018, with ... 04/29/2024 - 11:14 am | View Link
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis He had argued one of its most famous cases, defending the free speech rights of Nazis in the 1970s to march in Skokie, Ill., home to many Holocaust survivors. Mr. Goldberger, now 79, adored the A ... 04/29/2024 - 7:18 am | View Link
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ACLU: Purpose, History, and Current Controversies Key Takeaways: The ACLU. Organization founded in 1920 has defended civil liberties and free speech rights, even for those deemed indefensible. Over its history, the ACLU has represented anarchists, rebels, dissidents, artists, writers, the wrongly accused, and even belligerently vocal Nazis. The group's governing philosophy is to defend civil ... 04/28/2024 - 6:54 pm | View Link
Criminal defense attorney and former contestant on "The Apprentice" Stacy Schneider details her interpretation of former President Donald Trump's behavior in the courtroom during his ongoing hush money criminal trial.
The second week of testimony in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is officially over and it ended with a HUGE witness on the stand: Hope Hicks!
No ruling on the 2nd gag order hearing, so we still await that. But the judge did open with a doozy of a comment directly in response to a lie that Trump told the media last night about his gag order:
BREAKING: Judge corrects Trump for lying outside court yesterdayTrump said gag order prevented him from testifyingJudge: you have an absolute right to testify at trial or not & gag order has nothing to do with itMerchan is not tolerating Trump's disinfo campaign!
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) May 3, 2024
Boom.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
Why, oh why, does this keep happening to entities associated with Donald Trump? It's truly one of life's mysteries that criminals keeping associating themselves with Trump. BF Borgers are suspended from practicing as accountants, and received $14 million in fines. And it wasn't just done for Trump Media. In total, over 1500 SEC filings were found to be fraudulent.
Unemployment has been low for over two years now. President Joe Biden has created a whopping 15.3 million jobs. In contrast, Trump left office in disgrace with a negative job number. Negative. Trump was asked at the courthouse what he would do to create jobs; then he went off topic to talk about the border, among other things, none of which are job-related.
"What's my plan for jobs, you say?" Trump asked.
Andra Watkins discussed her Substack newsletter, "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life," on Rick Wilson's podcast on April 22. The growing threat of the Republican Party's ties to Christian Nationalism and Project 2025 is terrifying. Watkins helps more people understand the threat we are facing. Rick Wilson urged everyone to read "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life," because the "implications for the country are darker than you may imagine."
Watkins is a New York Times bestselling author who spent her "formative years in a Moral Majority-era Christian Nationalist church and school in rural South Carolina." According to Watkins, she has a "deep understanding of how Christian Nationalists think to their Christo-fascist manifesto, Project 2025."
The NY Times author writes, "Mainstream media outlets miss Project 2025’s Biblical language and imagery.