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White House Announces Troubling Faith-Based Order, ACLU Says Administration Is Heading Into Uncharted Waters (02/05/2009)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced today that he is taking the unprecedented and troubling step of forming a federal advisory committee to be made up mostly of religious leaders. Also of great concern, President Obama will increase federal funds going to religious organizations without first changing the Bush-era rules allowing federally-funded religious organizations to apply religious hiring tests to employees.

ACLU and Film Festival Sue Michigan Lawmakers Over Free Speech Violations (03/20/2007)
DETROIT - The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan today filed a federal lawsuit charging that state officials violated the First Amendment by punishing the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) for screening films that the state deemed "objectionable."

Florida ACLU Challenges Illegal Termination of Cable Access Funding (09/30/2002)
MIAMI--Saying that county officials in Tampa violated the First Amendment by engaging in content-based censorship of protected speech, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today filed a federal lawsuit against the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners for the unlawful termination of a cable access television contract.

Civil Liberties Union Files Brief Supporting Brooklyn Museum In Controversy with Mayor Giuliani (10/08/1999)
NEW YORK--In a 17-page "friend-of-the-court" brief submitted in federal court today, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union said that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani "flagrantly violated" the First Amendment in seeking to punish the Brooklyn Museum of Art over a controversial exhibit.

Civil Liberties Union Urges Mayor to Withdraw Threats to Brooklyn Museum Over Art Controversy (09/24/1999)
NEW YORK -- In a letter sent today to City Hall, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union urged Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to end his threats to cut off funding to a museum because of his objections to a controversial art exhibition.

Amicus Brief in Alliance For Open Society International, Inc., et al. v. United States Agency For International Development, et al. (11/09/2005)
The imperatives of PEPFAR and the AIDS Leadership Act are placed in jeopardy by USAID's requirement that public health organizations and other groups that receive funding under the AIDS Leadership Act must adopt a written policy "explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking."

Obama Administration Executive Order Regarding the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (02/05/2009)

ACLU Letter to the House Ways and Means Committee Urging Members to Support the Lewis Amendment to Strike Certain Provisions from H.R. 4520, the "American Jobs Creation Act of 2004" (06/11/2004)

Coalition Letter to the Federal Election Commission Secretary Expressing Concerns about Draft Advisory Opinion 2003-37, as It Applies to Federal Political Committees, Nonfederal Political Organizations and Other Nonprofit Corporations (02/04/2004)

Letter to Conferees on Support Language to Repeal the Global Gag Rule (10/29/2001)