News & Commentary
Oct 10, 2013
Tuesday’s election first for Rock Hill under voter photo ID law
October 10, 2013. Rock Hill Herald. By Anna Douglas. Residents who want to vote in Tuesday’s Rock Hill city election will be asked to show a photo ID at the polls, but York County’s director of elections says no registered voter without the identification will be turned away.
Oct 05, 2013
ACLU: Equal justice for poor remains unfulfilled in SC municipal courts
October 5, 2013. Island Packet - Beaufort. By Tom Barton. Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark right-to-counsel decision, poor residents in many places in South Carolina -- including Beaufort County -- still are tried without a lawyer.
Sep 23, 2013
Columbia, SC, to exile its homeless
The city plans to forcibly segregate them in the same year it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement.
Sep 17, 2013
Columbia homelessness plan draws heated criticism, threat of lawsuits
August 17, 2013. Columbia, SC. The State Newspaper. By Clif LeBlanc. Tempers are flaring as groups prepare to contest Columbia’s plan to remove homeless people from the city center, arguing it violates their constitutional rights.
Sep 17, 2013
Constitution Day is a chance to learn liberty’s lessons
September 17, 2013. Charleston. Post & Courier. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director of the ACLU of SC. Surveys show that distressingly few people in America are able to answer basic questions about the U.S. Constitution, such as naming the three branches of government or listing their First Amendment rights.
Sep 14, 2013
Treat fellow citizens fairly
September 18, 2013. The State Newspaper. Columbia. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director. Marriage is not about the wedding. Marriage (as anyone knows who has attempted it) involves shared values: love, but also commitment and the lifelong promise to take care of the one you love. Marriage is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. And a nationwide patchwork of laws, which is what the United States looks like following court rulings striking down marriage bans, unfairly limits the freedom of many people in our state.
Sep 06, 2013
Don’t focus on enforcement in immigration reform debate
By Victoria Middleton — Special to The Herald
Sep 02, 2013
Broken immigration system
September 2, 2013. Spartanburg Herald Journal. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director, ACLU of South Carolina. It is widely known that our country’s immigration system is broken. The status quo — which keeps millions of aspiring Americans in the shadows and in legal limbo — does not meet the needs of South Carolina business, does not promote public safety in our communities, and certainly does not respect our cherished civil liberties.
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