April 2025 Share the Plate: ACLU Foundation

For over 100 years, the ACLU has been ourThe American Civil Liberties Union originated in 1920 as a response to the Palmer raids, in which thousands of people were arrested without warrants or regard to constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure, then brutally treated and held in horrible conditions before deportation. The ACLU today is the nation's largest public interest law firm, with a 50-state network of staffed, autonomous affiliate offices. It appears before the United States Supreme Court more than any other organization except the U.S. Department of Justice. About 500 ACLU staff attorneys collaborate with about 2,000 volunteer attorneys in handling close to 2,000 cases annually. nation’s guardian of liberty, working to defend and preserve individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the US guarantee everyone in this country. From the Scopes trial to Brown vs the Board of Education to cases protecting the rights to free speech and privacy, to striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and guaranteeing nondiscrimination in the workplace for LGBTQ+, and much more, the ACLU has defended our most basic Constitutional rights. Recently, it has sued the Trump administration over the president’s unlawful and unprecedented invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to accelerate mass deportations. 

The ACLU Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization whose focus is on litigation and education; it engages in no lobbying. Please give generously to Share the Plate this month!