The Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is one of 10 asking Greyhound to stop allowing federal immigration authorities to conduct searches on its buses unless they have a warrant.
An ACLU lawyer told the Rutland Herald that the civil-liberties group hopes the bus company will assert Fourth Amendment rights against searches and seizures.
No woman has ever been elected or appointed to the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Vermont.
Mississippi's governor recently appointed a woman to take the place of retiring U.S. Senator Thad Cochrane. When the appointment takes effect April 1, Vermont will be the last state never to have been represented in Congress by a woman.
