Duncan Hosie is a constitutional law fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. He has litigated 1st Amendment cases, including as an appellate attorney and as a fellow with
president of Utah-based Advanced Defense Technologies, one of about half a dozen major manufacturers of pepper spray devices. “Does pepper spray have a role in some of these deaths? I will say yes. It is going to have an effect. These are weapons. . . . Clearly, this is not a breat...
as embodied in the implied freedom of political communication, makes Australia a uniquely congenial setting for TIPA laws and the type of burden they place on political speech. This is reflected in a range of High Court decisions as well as the fact that the Supreme Court ...
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"Many Texans -- and disproportionately people of color and people with low incomes -- will be forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will,” said Adriana Piñon, policy counsel and senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas. "This is especially horrific given the severe maternal...
④The quote was a defence of a woman’s right to have an abortion.⑤But the ACLU’s version—for which it, too, later apologised—replaced every instance of “women” with “people”. ⑥In Britain the opposition Labour Party is tying itself in very public knots over questions such as ...
ACLU has a hotline at 1-877-523-2792. MoveOn PAC also has a number of lines to call to report irregularities; they have an “election protection card” with local phone numbers (warning — link is to a PDF file). We definately need reforms. An election system, remember, has to convi...
When the ACLU launched a civil rights investigation into Hollywood’s entrenched inequality, and it pointed out what everyone with eyes, ears, and a brain already knew: There is a severe gender imbalance in the film industry. But this goes beyond the talent on screen and directly behind the ...
After signaling cautious openness to Trump, big tech firms leaped to oppose the travel ban. Companies and leaders donated millions to the ACLU. They made thunderous statements, and they took legal action. That’s because the tech industry was founded by immigrants — Elon Musk, Satya Nadella an...
Two years ago, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts decided to replace its “parental leave” policy with a “family leave” policy that provides for as much as 12 weeks of leave not only for new parents, but also for employees who need to care for a spouse, child, or parent with a ...