ACLU Of Illinois Responds to Supreme Court Order on Medical Care for Pregnant Persons in Need of Emergency Care
The Court could have chosen to protect women’s health at a moment when this health care is under attack. It missed the opportunity.
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The Court could have chosen to protect women’s health at a moment when this health care is under attack. It missed the opportunity.
The coalition, Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws: Coalition for Reproductive Justice & LGBTQ+ Liberation will be permitted to march on Michigan Avenue after the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit on their behalf last month.
The ACLU of Illinois is condemning the Chicago Police Department’s request to put on ice a lawsuit it filed last year, Wilkins v. Chicago, challenging racially discriminatory traffic stops.
Youth detained at the Mary Davis Detention Home (“MDH”) in Galesburg, Illinois continue to endure abusive, extended solitary confinement despite multiple failed audits and repeated warnings about the harm of this practice.
The plaintiffs in Wilkins v. Chicago are asking the Chief Judge to block CPD from sidestepping their case by moving oversight of traffic stops in the city under the Consent Decree process.
A unanimous panel of the Illinois Human Rights Commission is allowing charges of discrimination filed against Walmart for turning away a transgender man who sought to cash a money order.