Atlanta – “John Lewis was a great American. Time and time again he demonstrated moral and physical courage in nonviolent defiance of the white supremacist regime in the South.
Atlanta – “In their haste to silence Georgians’ demand for police accountability, the state legislature has produced a severely flawed bill that substantially reduces penalties for deliberately killing a police officer,” said Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia.
ATLANTA – The ACLU of Georgia opposes HB838, the addition of law enforcement as a protected class, a dangerous step to chill every Georgian’s First Amendment freedom of speech and the right to protest to redress grievances – guarantees in the U.S. Constitution.
ATLANTA – The Senate Judiciary Committee has twisted the Hate Crimes bill (HB 426) to chill freedom of speech and the right to protest to redress grievances – using the bill to affirm the state’s power to use violence against its own citizens with impunity.