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Supreme Court Invalidates Cumbersome Arizona Voter Registration Requirement

06/17/2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court today invalidated a burdensome Arizona state documentation requirement that restricted its citizens' ability to register to vote in federal elections...

Standing with DREAMers – from Driver’s Licenses to Immigration Reform

06/17/2013 – One year ago, the immigrant youth movement won the most important immigrants' rights victory in recent memory: the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which ...

The War on Marijuana Has a Latino Data Problem

06/14/2013 – We know that the War on Marijuana unnecessarily drags hundreds of thousands of people into the criminal justice system every year for having marijuana. And, because of a new ACLU report, ...

VICTORY! Supreme Court Decides: Our Genes Belong to Us, Not Companies

06/13/2013 – Should companies be able to patent human genes? Today, the Supreme Court answered that profound question with a resounding NO. Seems like common sense, right? But over the last 30 ...

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging NSA's Patriot Act Phone Surveillance

06/11/2013 – In the wake of the past week's revelations about the NSA's unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, today the ACLU filed a lawsuit charging that the program violates Americans' ...