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The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, and Cooley LLP announced today plans to file a legal challenge to proposed legislation in Alabama that would criminalize medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents.
A federal appeals court has for the first time heard arguments in a case involving accurate gender markers on IDs for transgender people.
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted Alabama’s bid to temporarily halt a district court ruling that had required the state to redraw its new congressional map to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
A federal court today struck down Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map.
Today, the Treasury Department issued its final rules on how states may use the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
Today, the ACLU of Alabama, 23 other local organizations, and dozens of individuals all sent a letter demanding that U.S. House Financial Services Committee urgently investigate the State of Alabama’s ill-conceived plan to spend $400 million dollars of COVID relief funds to build prisons.