Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves a country changed because of her life's work.
Few individuals have had such a dramatic and lasting effect on a particular area of law as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who directed the work of our Women's Rights Project from its founding in 1972 until her appointment to the federal bench in 1980.
During the 70s, RBG led our organization in a host of important battles, many before the Supreme Court, that established the foundation for the current legal protections against sex discrimination in this country and helped lay the groundwork for future women's rights advocacy.
By 1974, the Women's Rights Project and our affiliates had participated in over 300 sex discrimination cases.
Between 1969 and 1980, we participated in 66% of sex discrimination cases decided by the Supreme Court.
In 1981, President Carter appointed Ginsburg to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second woman to be a Justice on the Supreme Court.
In her honor we will be dedicating the ACLU Center for Liberty as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center.
Rest in power, RBG.
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BREAKING: We’re representing the NRA at the Supreme Court in their case against New York’s Department of Financial Services for abusing its regulatory power to violate the NRA’s First Amendment rights.
The government can’t blacklist an advocacy group because of its viewpoint.
We don’t support the NRA's mission or its viewpoints on gun rights, and we don’t agree with their goals, strategies, or tactics.
But we both know that government officials can't punish organizations because they disapprove of their views. nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/…
If the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, it will create a dangerous playbook for state regulatory agencies across the country to blacklist or punish any viewpoint-based organizations — from abortion rights groups to environmental groups or even ACLU affiliates.
BREAKING: We're suing Tennessee for their “aggravated prostitution” statute that targets people with HIV with harsh punishment and lifetime sex offender registration.
This law is unconstitutional and disproportionately affects Black and transgender women.
The law elevates engaging in sex work from a misdemeanor to a felony based on someone's HIV status – a protected disability.
People who are convicted must register as violent sex offenders for the rest of their lives, restricting their access to housing, employment, and social services.
Three years ago today, the murder of George Floyd in broad daylight by a Minneapolis police officer sparked the largest protests against police brutality in U.S. history.
George Floyd should still be alive.
George Floyd's murder demonstrated what we've known for too long: The policing institutions in our country are deeply entrenched in racism and violence.
We cannot allow it to continue.
Since June 2020, many cities and states have passed important but modest reforms, strengthening oversight of police departments and banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
BREAKING: We’re asking a federal court to block two provisions of an anti-voter law in Georgia that make it harder for people with disabilities to vote.
As it is now, the law makes it a felony for friends, neighbors, or staff who work in shelters or nursing homes to help people receive or return an absentee ballot, even if the person has a disability.
The law also requires counties to move ballot drop boxes indoors and limits their hours.
For people with mobility disabilities, this made turning in their ballot an arduous and painful ordeal — and for some it makes voting inaccessible altogether.
ICWA was passed in 1978 to protect Indigenous children from being removed from their families and communities, at a time when around 90% of Indigenous children were taken and raised outside of their tribes.
The Indian Child Welfare Act legally reaffirms tribal sovereignty, which is the right of tribes to make and be governed by their own laws.
It's embedded in hundreds of treaties, the U.S. Constitution, federal legislation, and Supreme Court decisions going back over 200 years.
Today, North Carolina, Nebraska, and South Carolina legislators are moving to advance state abortion bans that would restrict our access to life-saving care.