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18 Sep, 5 tweets, 1 min read
With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever.
In the last year, 560 abortion restrictions and bans have been introduced across the nation.
Texas is now enforcing an extreme ban on most abortion, encouraging anyone—a neighbor, estranged relative, or anti-abortion extremist—to sue someone who provides or assists a patient getting an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy in Texas, with a $10,000 reward for success.
In Arkansas, a bill was recently passed into law that prohibits abortion in nearly every case and imposes stiff criminal penalties on doctors for providing care.
These bills are all unconstitutional. We’re challenging them in court.

We miss you, RBG. Your legacy lives on in this fight.

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16 Sep
In a disappointing ruling today, a federal appeals court dismissed our client @Wikimedia's challenge to the mass surveillance of Americans' international emails, messaging, and web browsing.
We sued on behalf of the organization, challenging the NSA's "Upstream" surveillance of internet communications — one of the mass spying programs revealed by Edward Snowden.
Although the court held that Wikimedia had provided evidence that its communications with millions of users around the world are subject to NSA surveillance, the court said further litigation would expose sensitive information about the NSA's spying activities.

We disagree.
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11 Sep
Two decades after the tragic attacks on September 11th, 2001, we remember the victims, their families, and all of those impacted.
We pay particular tribute to John Perry who died in the World Trade Center and who served on the ACLU board in New York. nyclu.org/en/nyclu-pays-…
Like Officer Perry, we believe that our country is at its best when we keep America safe and free.

That includes the protection of all of our civil rights and civil liberties.
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1 Sep
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
Read 7 tweets
30 Aug
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
Read 7 tweets
28 Aug
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.
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“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 Two protest photos laying in grass. One is an ombré green a
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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.
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