American Civil Rights Project
The American Civil Rights Project knows that Americans’ civil rights are individual rights, equally held by all (regardless of whether those rights are understood as a positive enactment of centuries of ratifiers or as the common endowment of all children from nature and nature’s God). The ACR Project exists to protect and, where necessary, restore the primacy of all Americans’ shared civil rights. And we need your help!
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The American Civil Rights Project, a public-interest law firm, seeks to assure that American law equally protects all Americans. The ACR Project needs your help to pay for its efforts seeking to accomplish that goal. The ACR Project is a tax-exempt public charity, under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, so all contributions to the ACR Project may be tax deductible under Section 170 of the Code.
Our Latest News
UPDATE: 9th Circuit Correctly Upholds Idaho Law Requiring Use of One’s Own Single Sex Bathroom, Locker Room, and Shower
At least two cheers for the Ninth Circuit. Its opinion on the legality of states separating their school bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers by sex puts it (less thoroughly, but clearly) on the right side of the entrenched Circuit split over the correct reading of Title IX (effectively with the 11th Circuit, against the 4th and 7th Circuits).
ACR Project Alerts Congress to Unconstitutional MSI Programs
Today, the ACR Project alerted the House and Senate to the clear unconstitutionality of programs they should defund and repeal. ACR Project Chairman Gail Heriot, E.D. Dan Morenoff, and Director Peter Kirsanow signed the letters, which you can read, below. They concern the Minority Serving Institutions ("MSI") programs and their approximately billion dollars in annual funding.
Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot (of ACR Project Board) Submit Legislative Proposal on Accreditation to Congress
On February 18th, two U.S. Civil Rights Commissioners (and ACR Project Directors) proposed an improvement to the Higher Education Act.