Late last night SCOTUS ruled to end the federal eviction moratorium issued by the CDC.
Over the next two months alone, 3.5 million people will face the threat of eviction.
All levels of government must now take immediate action to ensure everyone has safe and stable housing.
Congress must pass legislation to ensure a federal moratorium on evictions.
States and localities must work to create or extend eviction moratoriums, as well as efficiently and equitably distribute the $46B in funding that Congress has already appropriated for rent relief.
States and localities must also take bold action to protect renters from the devastating effects of eviction by adopting a right to counsel and protections against screening policies that reject applicants based on prior eviction filings.
This crisis overwhelmingly hurts women and people of color: Data shows Black women renters had evictions filed by landlords at 2x the rate of white renters or higher, in 17 out of 36 states.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.
Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.
The law bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy — before many people even know they’re pregnant.
The result is that many Texans will be forced to carry pregnancies against their will.
Private individuals — including anti-abortion activists with no connection to patients — can now sue ANYONE who they believe is providing abortion or assisting someone in accessing abortion after six weeks. This could include:
▪️ Health care workers
▪️ Clergy
▪️ Rideshare drivers
Today, we asked the Supreme Court to block Texas’ radical 6-week abortion ban, SB8, from taking effect.
If they don’t intervene, abortion after six weeks into a pregnancy will come to an abrupt stop across Texas on Wednesday.
Texas’ SB8 bans abortion after six weeks into pregnancy — before most people even know they’re pregnant — and creates a bounty hunting scheme encouraging the general public to bring costly and harassing lawsuits against anyone who they believe has violated the ban.
Lawsuits may be filed against a broad range of people who help someone access abortion after six weeks, including:
▫️A person who drives their friend to obtain an abortion
▫️Abortion funds providing financial assistance
▫️Clinic staff
▫️Even a clergy member who assists a patient
Today is the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March on Washington.
His call for freedom still rings out “from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city.”
Let’s revisit some of his words from that day.
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation…But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” #IHaveADream
“One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.” #IHaveADream
BREAKING: Today a court held that our case challenging Clearview AI’s privacy-destroying conduct — the capture of millions of people’s unique identifying faceprints without their knowledge or consent — can proceed.
The face surveillance company tried to argue that it has a First Amendment right to capture our faceprints without our consent. It failed.
Today’s decision shows that with strong privacy laws it is still possible for us to retain control over our private biometric identifiers.
BREAKING: After seven years of fighting and following the Supreme Court’s decision not to review his many victories in court, Gavin Grimm’s case is finally resolved.
The Gloucester County school board has agreed to pay $1.3M in attorneys fees and costs.
Gavin first spoke in front of his school board in 2014.
There is no dollar amount that makes up for the discrimination Gavin faced, and the years of his life spent fighting for himself and all trans youth.
No one should have to fight this hard to be treated like everyone else.
Right now, trans youth around the country are fighting back against anti-trans laws in court and in state legislatures. And some school boards in Virginia are still refusing to adopt policies that support trans youth.
Trans youth shouldn’t have to fight this hard to survive.