Frank v. Walker: Fighting Voter Suppression in Wisconsin
We fought Wisconsin's strict voter ID law, which still stands.
At any given time, the ACLU of Wisconsin has thirty to forty active matters on its litigation docket. From municipalities infringing on individuals' free speech rights, to schools not taking race-based bullying seriously, to broader statewide issues.
Among the issues we work on are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, privacy, discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation or disability, police misconduct, censorship in school or libraries, fairness in application of school discipline, access to government documents, inhumane jail and prison conditions, and other issues of fair treatment by government.
We fought Wisconsin's strict voter ID law, which still stands.
SCOTUS ruled that the Constitution protects pretrial detainees against the unreasonable use of force regardless of the subjective motivation of the guards using that force.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that places medically...
After a court's ringing endorsement of free speech when the 2013 "Solidarity Singers" protesting Act 10 were cited, we were able to negotiate better permit policies for protest at the Capitol.