ACLU vows to oppose Trump policies on LGBT issues, abortion and deportations

The enforcement manager of the American Civil Liberties Union pledged "to combat" the forthcoming Trump administration's projected policies connected captious issues specified arsenic abortion, borderline information and LGBTQ rights.

"We cognize that a 2nd Trump medication volition beryllium adjacent much assertive and effectual than it was before," Anthony Romero, the group's enforcement director, said successful an unfastened letter published connected the ACLU's website. "The Trump administration’s anti-liberty and fundamentally anti-American policies volition beryllium met with the afloat firepower of the ACLU."

The left-wing civil liberties enactment launched 434 ineligible challenges against President Trump during his archetypal term, and these challenges volition proceed during his 2nd term, according to Romero's unfastened letter. They plan, for example, to usage the courts to "invalidate Trump medication policies" impacting the cheery and transgender communities, specified arsenic actions that support biologic males retired of women's bathrooms oregon that forestall them from playing connected women's sports teams.

Anthony D. Romero speaks astatine the ACLU National Conference connected June 11, 2018, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

The ACLU besides plans to hone successful connected challenges to Trump's efforts to deport amerciable immigrants residing successful the U.S., and immoderate attempts by the caller president to restrict abortion. 

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During Trump's archetypal term, the ACLU spearheaded efforts to artifact Trump's question prohibition connected respective countries successful the Middle East. While initially successful, the Supreme Court yet upheld the ban. Other challenges from the ACLU against Trump included going aft his medication for restricting termination attraction for migration detainees, combating Trump's efforts to instrumentality asylum restrictions for migrants and his propulsion to see a citizenship question connected the 2020 census. 

The ACLU's Adri Perez, center, and different activists rally extracurricular a Texas courthouse wherever a proceeding was held to halt mandated kid payment investigations targeting families supportive of transgender children. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

In his 2nd term, Trump, according to Romero, volition effectuate "dragnet raids" against immigrants, people his governmental foes, "spy connected backstage citizens, beforehand favoritism against marginalized communities, and power what we tin and can't bash with our bodies."

"Despair and resignation are not a strategy," Romero said. "At the ACLU, we’re choosing to transmission our fearfulness into action."

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In summation to utilizing the courts, the ACLU besides said it intends to leverage its ties to national and authorities lawmakers to propulsion for oversight and investigations into Trump's "restrictive executive branch policies."

Pro-abortion activists show successful Orlando, Florida. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty)

"The Trump administration’s anti-liberty and fundamentally anti-American policies volition beryllium met with the afloat firepower of the ACLU, the mightiness of our allies, and the committedness of the American people," Romero wrote. 

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The ACLU declined to remark to Fox News, but an authoritative did constituent to a June "roadmap" the radical published outlining its program "to support civilian rights" successful the adjacent medication and analyzing the policies of some Trump and President Biden, who, astatine the time, was the Democrats' nominee for president anterior to dropping out. 

"This November, state is connected the ballot," the roadmap's instauration stated.