ACLU of the Nation's Capital 2013 Summer Law Fellow Announcement

ACLU of the Nation's Capital invites law students interested in public interest lawyering to apply for summer internships. Work on civil liberties litigation and legislation to help the community of Washington, DC.

July 4th Palisades Parade Update

July 4th Palisades Parade Update: ACLU-NCA will not have its own contingent in the Palisades Parade this year, but hope to participate again in 2013. For those ACLU-NCA members who support DC Statehood and wish to participate in the parade with other organizations that also support statehood for the District of Columbia, please contact beverly@aclu-nca.org or at 202-457-0800.

50TH ANNIVERSARY BILL OF RIGHTS AWARDS DINNER – April 16th

 50^TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER - Monday, April 16th

Join us as we say farewell to Johnny Barnes
and pay tribute to
David Isbell, Frank Kameny and Ralph Temple at our

Golden Anniversary Dinner 

–celebrating 50 years from Loving v. Virginia to United States v. Jones: D.C. GPS case

Honoring
Jane Mayer, investigative reporter with The New Yorker and
Jose-Antonio Vargas, multimedia journalist and founder of  "Define American"

With Guest Speaker
Linda Greenhouse, former New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent
and well-know public television commentator

Jane Mayer 2012 Edgerton Recipient

Jose-Antonio Vargas  2012 Edgerton Recipient

Linda Greenhouse Guest Speaker

We come together at this Dinner to celebrate the past, present and future of the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital along with its accomplishments and work in alleviating preventive detention and police misconduct, employment discrimination and censorship, as well as the promotion of academic freedom, church-state separation, first amendment rights and overall defense of civil rights that involve infringement of civil liberties. Click here for full story.

For information on seats and sponsorships, click here, or contact Felicia Smith at (202) 457-0800. Seats are priced at $150 each (tax-deductible over the $70 per plate charge). For online ticket sales, sponsorshorships or to make a donation, click the buttons below. This promises to be an exhilarating, exciting, and enlivening event. 

ACLU-NCA opposes mandatory pretrial detention bill

On February 3, we opposed Bill 19-485, which would mandate pretrial detention or the use of an electronic monitoring device by any person accused of a crime involving a gun. We pointed out that the bill’s central purpose – removing from the courts the ability to tailor the conditions of pretrial release to fit the defendant – was at odds with the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of excessive bail.