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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments from the ACLU of the District of Columbia on Monday, July 16 about temporarily halting new rules barring employees of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) from engaging in a broad range of political speech.
"We are pleased the D.C. Council is holding public hearings on concerns to public safety in Wards 7 and 8, and we are glad that glad Chief of Police Peter Newsham appears to be planning to attend the morning session," said Monica Hopkins, Executive Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia."
The lawsuit challenges new rules prohibiting employees of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts from engaging in a broad range of political speech and activities.
Today civil rights groups asked a Court to order Mayor Muriel Bowser and two other top D.C. officials to require police to collect comprehensive data on all stops and frisks in the District.
A federal judge has temporarily ruled the Office of Refugee Resettlement can no longer prevent women in its custody from receiving abortion care.
The groups threaten a lawsuit over two-year delay of NEAR Act stop-and-frisk data collection requirement.