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Live Coverage: Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS Decision
The Supreme Court just struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
By ACLU
Live Coverage: Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS DecisionPodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
Defending Our Rights Under a Second Trump Administration
From blocking unconstitutional orders to mobilizing millions, here’s how we're fighting back and what comes next.
Deaths in Detention: ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps into Warehouses Despite Record Deaths
Despite abhorrent conditions and increasing deaths in ICE detention, the Trump administration’s new warehouse detention system would increase capacity to 96,000 people and undoubtedly lead to continued abuse.
By Haddy Gassama
Deaths in Detention: ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps into Warehouses Despite Record Deaths
ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup
The coalition has issued a travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown.
By Alaina Ruffin, Jamil Dakwar
ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup
‘My Child is Now a Political Debate’: Immigrant Families Respond as Arguments Wrap in Landmark Challenge against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats
Families share how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order upended their hopes, and forced them to consider early births or leaving the U.S.
By Hibah Ansari, Lora Strum
‘My Child is Now a Political Debate’: Immigrant Families Respond as Arguments Wrap in Landmark Challenge against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship ThreatsPodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
Defending Our Rights Under a Second Trump Administration
From blocking unconstitutional orders to mobilizing millions, here’s how we're fighting back and what comes next.
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Land, Language, and Lifeways: What Native Americans Lost
The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case that will decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma is legally an Indian Reservation. The Court’s decision could have massive implications for tribal sovereignty and subsequently, many other Native issues that are impacted by jurisdictional...
The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case that will decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma is legally an Indian Reservation. The Court’s decision could have massive implications for tribal sovereignty and subsequently, many other Native issues that are impacted by jurisdictional...
Using Bail as Ransom Violates the Core Tenets of Pretrial Justice
Across the country, people are forced to surrender bail money to pay future debts before they’re ever convicted of a crime.
By Andrea Woods
Across the country, people are forced to surrender bail money to pay future debts before they’re ever convicted of a crime.
By Andrea Woods
The Government is Using its Foreign Intelligence Spying Powers for Routine Domestic Investigations
Congress gave the government exceptional surveillance powers to pursue foreign spies. It is abusing those powers to go after Americans in ordinary...
By Ashley Gorski, Patrick Toomey
Congress gave the government exceptional surveillance powers to pursue foreign spies. It is abusing those powers to go after Americans in ordinary...
By Ashley Gorski, Patrick Toomey
CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests
If this memo is authentic, CBP has been caught in a lie.
By Scarlet Kim, Hugh Handeyside
If this memo is authentic, CBP has been caught in a lie.
By Scarlet Kim, Hugh Handeyside
The Government Is Trying to Strip Student Workers of the Ability to Unionize
As an organization deeply devoted to both academic freedom and free association, we won’t stand by it.
By Arianna Demas
As an organization deeply devoted to both academic freedom and free association, we won’t stand by it.
By Arianna Demas
Harnessing History and Solidarity to Stop Migrant Detention
The U.S. has a long history of detaining and incarcerating communities of color under the auspice of protecting its national security. Today, on Korematsu Day, we honor and celebrate the legacy of those who stood up against the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. On this...
The U.S. has a long history of detaining and incarcerating communities of color under the auspice of protecting its national security. Today, on Korematsu Day, we honor and celebrate the legacy of those who stood up against the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. On this...
We’re Back in Court this Week Defending Access to Safe Abortion in Kentucky
Attacks on abortion access have left Kentucky with only one clinic left in the entire state.
By Amber Duke
Attacks on abortion access have left Kentucky with only one clinic left in the entire state.
By Amber Duke
One Year of Forced Return to Mexico; Three Years of Trump Dismantling the Asylum System
The administration’s most devastatingly comprehensive blueprint for halting immigration from non-European countries to the U.S..
By Ruthie Epstein
The administration’s most devastatingly comprehensive blueprint for halting immigration from non-European countries to the U.S..
By Ruthie Epstein
Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”
Human rights workers say people deported to Guatemala under a new Trump administration practice face dangerous conditions and an asylum system that...
By Ashoka Mukpo
Human rights workers say people deported to Guatemala under a new Trump administration practice face dangerous conditions and an asylum system that...
By Ashoka Mukpo
What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective
Our authorities need to respond with cool heads, based on science, and without intruding any more than strictly necessary on people’s civil...
By Jay Stanley
Our authorities need to respond with cool heads, based on science, and without intruding any more than strictly necessary on people’s civil...
By Jay Stanley
