All posts tagged "American Civil Liberties Union"

The Department of Homeland Security refuted an article in Monday's Los Angeles Times that accused the agency of making sweeping arrests based on "racial profiling."

The article's headline read, "Fears of racing profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens."

It quoted an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California as saying, "We are seeing ICE come into our communities to do indiscriminate mass arrests of immigrants or people who appear to them to be immigrant, largely based on racial profiling."...

Two new court cases will test the limits of the First Amendment as the Supreme Court decides just how far religion can permeate public schools.

At issue are two cases the court recently agreed to hear: in the first, the six Republican appointees and three Democratic appointees will consider whether to permit the country’s first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma; and in the second, the court will hear an appeal from parents in Maryland who want the right to keep their children from reading books having to do with LGBTQ subjects.

The American Civil Liberties Union condemned the court's decision to take the Oklahoma case, saying in a statement: “The law is clear: Charter schools are public schools and must be secular and open to all students." The statement continued, "Oklahoma taxpayers...should not be forced to fund a religious public school that plans to discriminate against students and staff and indoctrinate students into one religion. Converting public schools into Sunday schools would be a dangerous sea change for our democracy.”...

WASHINGTON – Maxwell Frost has not been shy about criticizing Joe Biden’s administration – from climate change to border policy to Israel’s war in Gaza.

But the nation’s first Gen Z congressman has nevertheless seen his profile inside the Democratic Party rise. And despite Frost’s concerns, the 27-year-old Floridian is becoming an increasingly essential surrogate for the 81-year-old Biden.

To Frost, that push and pull is part of any relationship, and he doesn’t know why it should be any different in politics. ...

Police in Los Angeles have refused to share the data they collect from automatic license plate readers, arguing that it’s all related to ongoing investigations.

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to reconsider its decision not to prosecute six Michigan police officers who fatally shot a homeless man during a confrontation over stolen coffee.