'aclu' is not a correct word in written English.
It is an acronym for the American Civil Liberties Union. You can use the acronym to refer to the union in written English. For example, "ACLU has been protecting and defending people's civil liberties since 1920."
Mr Davis says 24 other Georgians have called his firm to discuss harmful police raids since he started representing the Phonesavanhs".Our neighbourhoods are not war zones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies," fumes a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Even ACLU advocates say it will be difficult.
Arguing that "alleged threats should be considered in light of their entire factual context", he in effect agreed with both the plaintiffs and the ACLU that the website was not automatically-protected free speech.All this is, of course, tricky ground for the ACLU.
The Guardian has joined the ACLU and Oklahoman news outlets in legally challenging the state's refusal to allow full public access to the execution.
Cases of stop-and-frisk surged in Chicago with the arrival of police superintendent Garry McCarthy in 2011, ACLU found.
"The disclosures of the last two years make clear that we need wholesale reform," Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU argued last month.
The ACLU report – which was published following new documentation of racially discriminatory policing practices in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country – was the latest gut check for the Chicago police department.
Chicago tallied more than 250,000 stops that did not lead to an arrest in the summer of 2014, the ACLU report found.
Neema Singh Giuliani of the ACLU said the poll results show a "disconnection" between anti-surveillance fervor by voters and a congressional debate bounded by retained surveillance powers at one pole and what she described as the "modest reform" of the USA Freedom Act on the other.
The ACLU estimates that life-without-parole sentences for non-violent offenders add $1.8 billion to the cost of incarcerating those to whom they apply.
There is lots of fraud in Philadelphia elections, he went on, and besides, those "whining" about lacking voter ID through their representatives in the ACLU or other groups quickly get ID cards.
