Key Issues
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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- Abortion
- Affirmative Action
- Ballot Access
- Biological Technologies
- Birth Control
- Campaign Finance Reform
- Campaign Finance Reform
- Capital Punishment
- Censorship
- Children's Rights
- Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Clemency
- Consumer Privacy
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice and HIV
- Criminal Law Reform
- Death Penalty
- Detention
- Discrimination
- Discrimination Against Transgender People
- Dissent
- Drug Sentencing and Penalties
- Drug Testing
- Education
- Education
- Effective Counsel
- Election Reform
- Employment
- Execution Methods
- Felon Enfranchisement
- Flag Desecration
- Free Exercise of Religion
- Free Speech
- Government-Funded Religion
- HIV / AIDS
- HIV Testing and Privacy
- HIV/AIDS Discrimination
- Health-Based Solutions
- Human Rights
- Human Rights
- Ideological Exclusion
- Immigrant Detention
- Immigrants' Rights
- Immigrants' Rights
- Immigration Detention
- Immigration Enforcement
- Indigent Defense
- Innocence and the Death Penalty
- Internet Censorship
- Internet Free Speech
- Internet Privacy
- Junk Science and Capital Punishment
- Juvenile Justice
- Juvenile Justice
- LGBT Basic Rights and Liberties
- LGBT Parenting
- LGBT Relationships
- LGBT Rights
- LGBT Youth & Schools
- Local Anti-Immigrant Laws
- Marijuana Law Reform
- Medical Care in Prison
- Medical Privacy
- Mental Health Care in Prison
- Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
- National Security
- National Security
- Police Practices
- Pregnancy
- Prevention and Education
- Prison Conditions
- Prisoners' Rights
- Private Prisons
- Race and Criminal Justice
- Race and the Death Penalty
- Racial Justice
- Racial Justice
- Racial Profiling
- Redistricting
- Religion & Belief
- Religion and Reproductive Rights
- Religion and Schools
- Reproductive Freedom
- Restriction of Prisoners' Rights
- Right to Protest
- Search and Seizure
- Secrecy
- Sex Education
- State Anti-Immigrant Laws
- Student Speech
- Students
- Surveillance & Privacy
- Targeted Killings
- Technology and Liberty
- The Public Square
- The Voting Rights Act
- Torture
- Violence Against Women
- Voter Disfranchisement
- Voting Rights
- Women in Prison
- Women's Rights
- Women's Rights
- Workplace Privacy
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