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The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to confirm they have approved Cristina Nichole Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery by the Wednesday court-ordered deadline, suggesting that BOP has again denied her the care she needs.
In response to the announcement that President Joe Biden is nominating Nusrat Choudhury, legal director at that ACLU of Illinois, to be a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York, ACLU of Illinois Executive Director Colleen Connell offered t
An alliance of faith-based and anti-violence community leaders have joined policy organizations and government agencies to call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to drop her plan to use new civil asset forfeiture powers in response to gun violence in Chicago.
For the first time ever, a federal court has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate a transgender woman for gender-affirming surgery.
Illinois took a critical step today to protect and expand access to abortion care with the signing of HB370 – the Youth Health and Safety Act – by Governor JB Pritzker.
Today, the Department of Children and Family Services demonstrated once again that it either cannot, or will not, meet its core obligations under the B.H. Consent Decree.