News & Commentary

Note: This guest blog was originally posted on the ACLU national website on Jan. 19, 2017.By Dierdre Grim

Guest Blog by Theo Kahn

Please re-watch our Nov. 17, 2016, Facebook Live conversation on the topic of Know Your Rights at Protests and Demonstrations.

Please re-watch our Nov. 2, 2016, Facebook Live conversation on the topic of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP).

The right to vote is a vital to our democracy. No person should be permitted to engage without sanction in conduct that threatens that right.

By Gail Deady, The Secular Society Women’s Rights Legal Fellow

Please re-watch our Oct. 12 Facebook Live conversation on the topic of voting in Virginia as we run up to this year's election on Nov. 8, 2016. More information is available here, and please remember to take your photo ID to the polls and contact the ACLU of Virginia at 804-644-8080 or aclu@acluva.org if you experience problems on Election Day.

The following remarks were delivered by ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga at the first of four 'listening tour' events on the topic of police-community relations sponsored by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. The forum was held on Aug. 16, 2016, at the Richmond Police Academy.

By Gail Deady The Secular Society Women’s Rights Legal Fellow Note: This article was originally posted on the blog of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.