On March 5, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the National Education Association (NEA), and the National Education Association–New Hampshire, ...

On March 6, 2025, the ACLU; the ACLU of Rhode Island; Lynette Labinger, cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Rhode Island; and David Cole filed a federal lawsuit against the National Endowment for the ...

Theaters represented by the ACLU sue the NEA over ‘gender ideology’ policy. Groups represented by the ACLU are looking to block new National Endowment for the Arts requirements for grant ...

A lawsuit challenges a Trump executive order that asks funding applicants to agree to not promote "gender ideology" in their work. The NEA said it would nix the language until the case concludes.

In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU's Rhode Island offshoot filed a suit on behalf of several theaters, claiming that ...

ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Vera Eidelman, who is leading the lawsuit, argues that the NEA’s enforcement of the gender ideology mandate violates First Amendment protections and administrative ...

RI POLITICS R.I. ACLU pushes National Endowment for the Arts to specify how it will adhere to Trump’s ‘gender ideology’ order The NEA issued guidelines late last month stating it will follow ...

NEA, ACLU bring lawsuit against Trump administration’s attack on DEI in education The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024.

The ACLU is representing the lead plaintiff in the case, Rhode Island Latino Arts, and several other theater groups and arts organizations based in the northeast. The NEA — a federal agency which ...

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of four arts and theater organizations challenging new gender-ideology restrictions tied to federal NEA grants.

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the National Education Association (NEA), and the National Education Association–New Hampshire, filed a ...