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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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Church or Jail? Federal Court Delivers Qualified Immunity Win For Religious Freedom
A Colorado man can sue the officer who revoked his parole for not attending worship services, a federal court ruled.
By Heather L. Weaver
A Colorado man can sue the officer who revoked his parole for not attending worship services, a federal court ruled.
By Heather L. Weaver
Simone Biles, Sha’Carri Richardson, and How the Olympics Failed Black Women (ep. 169)
The Tokyo 2020 games keep making headlines for the wrong reasons — particularly the treatment of Black athletes.
By Jacquelyne Germain
The Tokyo 2020 games keep making headlines for the wrong reasons — particularly the treatment of Black athletes.
By Jacquelyne Germain
Simone Biles, Sha’Carri Richardson, and How the Olympics Failed Black Women
Every two years the Olympic Games promise to be historic. Athletes defy odds, break records, and achieve feats unimaginable to most of us. But the...
Every two years the Olympic Games promise to be historic. Athletes defy odds, break records, and achieve feats unimaginable to most of us. But the...
Documents Foreshadow a Grim Future for COVID-19 Spread in Federal Prisons
What happens when federal prison staff speak out on the dangers ravaging their facility during COVID-19? Almost nothing, it seems.
By Syeda Malliha
What happens when federal prison staff speak out on the dangers ravaging their facility during COVID-19? Almost nothing, it seems.
By Syeda Malliha
Border Patrol Must Stop Holding People in an Inhumane Outside Pen Under a Highway in South Texas
Border Patrol continues to detain migrants, including children, in appalling outdoor conditions under the Anzalduas International Bridge in...
By Shaw Drake, Kate Huddleston
Border Patrol continues to detain migrants, including children, in appalling outdoor conditions under the Anzalduas International Bridge in...
By Shaw Drake, Kate Huddleston
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America
A pioneering scholar of Critical Race Theory joins us to discuss the true meaning of the practice, and how it became a political flashpoint in...
By Ines Santos
A pioneering scholar of Critical Race Theory joins us to discuss the true meaning of the practice, and how it became a political flashpoint in...
By Ines Santos
Freedom of the Press is Under Attack
The Biden administration must commit to protect journalists, free press, and free speech.
By Kelly Simon
The Biden administration must commit to protect journalists, free press, and free speech.
By Kelly Simon
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth about Race in America
Lawmakers, parents, think tanks, and conservative pundits have waged a war over how to teach students about systemic racism. As of this recording,...
Lawmakers, parents, think tanks, and conservative pundits have waged a war over how to teach students about systemic racism. As of this recording,...
The Texas Legislature's Culture War
On this week's episode of At Liberty, we get an on-the-ground look at Texas House Democrats' choice to flee the state in the name of voting rights.
By Jacquelyne Germain
On this week's episode of At Liberty, we get an on-the-ground look at Texas House Democrats' choice to flee the state in the name of voting rights.
By Jacquelyne Germain
Our Leaders Can Save Lives With the Stroke of a Pen
The gubernatorial and executive power of clemency is vastly underused. That needs to change, now.
The gubernatorial and executive power of clemency is vastly underused. That needs to change, now.
