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
ACR Project Expresses Concerns with California’s Newest Batch of Discriminatory Legislative Proposals
If the California Legislature is in session, some member is proposing the unconstitutional favoring of individuals based on ancestry. This session, that's again a winning bet (however the people of California must feel about that fact). Once more, Assemblymembers and Senators have proposed a whole slate of discriminatory bills (and one discriminatory state constitutional amendment). We've submitted letters to both chambers expressing concerns with the legality and constitutionality of a host of those proposals.
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.