On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration announced its plan to ban menthol cigarettes in response to a 2013 citizen petition advocating the ban of mint-flavored cigarettes, the Washington Post reports. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 20 million Americans smoke menthols. Phillip Gardiner, the co-chair of the …
Read More »Republican Lawmakers Are Passing Bills That Target Protestors
Republican legislators are introducing laws that target protestors. According to Truthout, Republicans have introduced 81 bills in 34 states aimed at protestors. On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an anti-protest bill into law. Chris Sprowls, speaker of the Florida House, doesn’t want future protests to get out of hand …
Read More »Legal Fight Against Voting Restrictions In Georgia Intensifies, Activist Call For Boycott Against Delta And Coca-Cola
The state of Georgia was handed a third lawsuit in response to it’s newly passed voting restrictions. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta late on Monday called the law racially discriminatory and “an attack on democracy itself”. “This law is voter suppression, plain and simple, and aimed …
Read More »ACLU Elects Black Woman As President; First Black Person In Role
The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that its national board elected Deborah Archer as its new president. An established civil rights lawyer, scholar, and teacher, Archer began her career as the Marvin M. Karpatkin Legal Fellow at the ACLU. She has been a member of the ACLU board since …
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