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The ICE detention story reflects a long pattern in the United States of the coerced sterilization of marginalized populations, particularly of...

By Maya Manian

The ACLU is a nonpartisan organization — but we never shy away from a fight when civil liberties are at stake.

By Ronald Newman

Courts should require a search warrant to ensure that police do not abuse this power.

By Nathan Freed Wessler, Jennifer Stisa Granick

People are rightfully losing faith in the law’s ability to deliver justice. Here’s what prosecutors could do to fix that.

By Somil Trivedi

Before she became a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth was a mother, a law professor, and the founder of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project.

By Aryeh Neier

In Georgia, the disconnect between the law and practice in the context of bail reform is laid bare by a new study.

By Andrea Woods

The company rejected an ad of a same-sex couple, but took no issue with a similar ad of a heterosexual couple.

By ACLU, Sera Golding-Young

September is in full swing, and millions of students across the US are returning to school, though for many, this year looks like none other. As school districts across the country grapple with how to resume classes during a pandemic, many districts and their trans students are facing additional...

At a time of bitter, partisan division, a supermajority of ordinary Democrats and Republicans joined forces to pass the most significant expansion...

By Duncan Hosie

With Justice Ginsburg’s death, the fight to protect reproductive freedom is more urgent than ever, as is the need not to settle for what we have...

By Louise Melling