Heather Weaver

Senior Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union


Heather L. Weaver is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. She litigates a wide range of religious-liberty cases nationwide. Weaver is a graduate of Dickinson College (’99) and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). Prior to joining the ACLU, Weaver was an attorney at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, where she litigated cases involving a variety of church-state issues. She writes and speaks publicly about the First Amendment and has been interviewed and quoted by a variety of news outlets, including the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, the Huffington Post, Politico, the Washington Post, and Fox News.

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We’re suing to stop Christian Nationalists from creating religious public charter schools

Okla. is violating the separation of church and state by creating the nation’s 1st religious charter school. If we don’t stop them, religious public schools like this could appear in states around the country. Join the fight:

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