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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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He Says Tomato. We Say No, Seriously…That's Unconstitutional.
By Amanda Simon
By Amanda Simon
ACLU Challenges Government Suppression Of Torture Testimony At Guantánamo
By Suzanne Ito
By Suzanne Ito
I Beg Your Pardon?
Send a message to President Bush telling him not to pardon key members of his administration involved in authorizing the torture and abuse of...
By Suzanne Ito
Send a message to President Bush telling him not to pardon key members of his administration involved in authorizing the torture and abuse of...
By Suzanne Ito
BREAKING: Supreme Court to Hear ACLU's Domestic Detention Case
By Suzanne Ito
By Suzanne Ito
Taking Action on Act 1 in Arkansas
By Anna Mumford
By Anna Mumford
Death by Harsh Sentencing and Deliberate Indifference
By Will Matthews
By Will Matthews
Toward a Universal Declaration of Reproductive Freedom
By Louise Melling
By Louise Melling
It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At
By Christopher Hill
By Christopher Hill
A PROMISE to Youth to Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Ian S. Thompson
By Ian S. Thompson