ACLU-PA Sues Butler County Over Ballot "Curing" Policy
ACLU-PA and Public Interest Law Center represent two voters who forgot the secrecy envelope in their mail ballot but then had their provisional ballots not counted when they tried to fix their mistake.
The work of stabilizing democracy is by no means over. We anticipate that those who would restrict the right to vote and even try to overturn the results of legitimate elections will be back for more in 2024.
I’m returning to the topic of abortion access because the warning signals about the danger of losing the legal right to an abortion are even louder now, six months later
At midnight on September 1, the right to legally access abortion care in the United States took a perilous turn for the worse when the Supreme Court allowed an extreme Texas law to go into effect.
I have been urging the staff at ACLU-PA and all of my friends, especially my white friends, to watch When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s brilliant dramatization of the Central Park Five, later reclaimed as the Exonerated Five.
When two Black men were arrested at a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia in April, it came as no surprise to those of us at the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Infuriating, sure. But
not surprising.
As the harsh reality of the Trump administration’s extreme agenda has settled in over the last year, we are honored that so many people have put their trust in the ACLU to defend civil liberties and to push back against the worst instincts of those who govern.
In August, we were all horrified by the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists were on the march, spewing their vile worldview and motivating one of their kind to drive a car into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing Heather Heyer.
In some ways, our country changed on November 8, 2016. The United States elected a leader who, by all measures, is hostile to the basic foundations and principles that we stand for.
A robust dialogue has risen up about police practices—stop-and-frisk, broken windows, the biased implementation of the War on Drugs—which have led to both unnecessary deaths and, thankfully, to the “social death” of mass incarceration.