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Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
ACLU experts break down how data centers negatively impact communities, violate civil liberties, and how we can respond.
By Jina John
Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesPodcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
The ACLU could have its busiest Supreme Court term ever, with potential cases on immigration, voting rights, and religious freedom in schools.
By Cecillia Wang
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today
In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitutional. It's led to an array of landmark decisions that continue to protect our civil liberties today.
By Vanessa Mbonu, Hibah Ansari
What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.
ACLU breaks down findings from our latest report on how mass deportations are breaking our democracy.
By Naureen Shah
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.Podcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
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New Guidance Fails to Stop Mistreatment of Pregnant People and Their Children in Detention
Bassinets and snacks don't make the detention of pregnant, postpartum, nursing people, and their newborns any less inhumane.
By Mitra Ebadolahi, Monika Y. Langarica
Bassinets and snacks don't make the detention of pregnant, postpartum, nursing people, and their newborns any less inhumane.
By Mitra Ebadolahi, Monika Y. Langarica
In 2021, Our Fight for LGBTQ Rights Moved to the States
2021 saw a record number of attacks on LGBTQ rights in state legislatures — most aimed at trans youth. We’re fighting back in courts and...
By ACLU
2021 saw a record number of attacks on LGBTQ rights in state legislatures — most aimed at trans youth. We’re fighting back in courts and...
By ACLU
An Update on Our Biggest Stories of 2021
On the podcast, we’ve chronicled some of the year’s biggest stories: the insurrection, the rescinding of the Muslim ban, devastating police...
On the podcast, we’ve chronicled some of the year’s biggest stories: the insurrection, the rescinding of the Muslim ban, devastating police...
Surreal Stingray Secrecy: Uncovering the FBI’s Surveillance Tech Secrecy Agreements
The public has a right to know whether the FBI is forcing law enforcement agencies to keep information on invasive surveillance technology a secret.
By Laura Moraff
The public has a right to know whether the FBI is forcing law enforcement agencies to keep information on invasive surveillance technology a secret.
By Laura Moraff
Over a Year After His Election, President Biden’s Human Rights Commitments Fail to Meet the Moment
After four years of attacks on human rights under the Trump administration, we need bold action from the Biden administration to advance human...
By Jamil Dakwar, Aaron Madrid Aksoz
After four years of attacks on human rights under the Trump administration, we need bold action from the Biden administration to advance human...
By Jamil Dakwar, Aaron Madrid Aksoz
The Case for Optimism: 2021 Legal Wins at the ACLU
As we near the end of the year, we are bringing you an episode of reflection. A lot has happened in the world, in our country and in our work at the ACLU. ...
As we near the end of the year, we are bringing you an episode of reflection. A lot has happened in the world, in our country and in our work at the ACLU. ...
With Reproductive Freedom in Danger, New Jersey Must Expand Protections and Access
It’s past time for the state to affirm autonomy, racial and economic justice, and community health to ensure that reproductive health care is...
By Alejandra Sorto
It’s past time for the state to affirm autonomy, racial and economic justice, and community health to ensure that reproductive health care is...
By Alejandra Sorto
Three Reasons Why Congress Must Pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Now
Workers still are routinely denied the temporary job changes they need to have healthy pregnancies — but a bipartisan bill is poised to provide...
By ACLU
Workers still are routinely denied the temporary job changes they need to have healthy pregnancies — but a bipartisan bill is poised to provide...
By ACLU
Here are the States We’re Watching as Redistricting Begins
This year, as states across the country begin to redraw their district lines, the ACLU works to ensure that these new electoral lines are not...
By Sophie Beiers
This year, as states across the country begin to redraw their district lines, the ACLU works to ensure that these new electoral lines are not...
By Sophie Beiers
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that challenges a nearly 49-year-old precedent protecting a pregnant person's right to an abortion established in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. The law in question is...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that challenges a nearly 49-year-old precedent protecting a pregnant person's right to an abortion established in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. The law in question is...