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Yesterday, the Alabama House voted in favor of a bill so that “the right to display the Ten Commandments on property owned or administrated by a public school or public body is not restrained or abridged.” This bill was later amended to allow for other religious displays.
Yesterday, the Alabama House voted to allow the use of nitrogen gas for executions and it now goes to the Governor for her review. This method, in theory, would asphyxiate inmates with the gas if lethal injection drugs were not available or if it was ruled unconstitutional for a particular prisoner.
Tomorrow, students around the country are planning to participate in the National Walkout, a coordinated protest and memorial to the 17 students who were killed at Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. The walkout is scheduled to last for 17 minutes to honor each student.
ACLU of Alabama, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee, and Campaign Legal Center submitted a brief in support of the appeal of a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s voter ID law that requires voters to obtain photo ID in order to vote.
The ACLU and ACLU of Alabama filed a lawsuit today challenging Alabama’s policy of restricting access to driver’s licenses for transgender people that accurately reflect their gender identity. The lawsuit, Corbitt v. Taylor, was filed on behalf of three people who experienced this discrimination.
The US District Court entered a consent decree requiring the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health (“ADMH”) to provide timely psychiatric services to class members, persons with mental illness or intellectual disabilities whose competency to stand trial is questioned.