News & Commentary

We don’t yet know how long it will take, but what’s certain already is that Election 2020 will be one for the history books.

By ACLU

For the launch of our podcast series, At the Polls, we are answering your questions about voting in the lead up to the election. Our first question is: What will election night look like in a global pandemic?

Make your plan to vote, starting with your state’s vote by mail options: aclu.org/voter.

By Molly McGrath

Too often, our immigration system is used as a tool of discrimination and oppression, rather than as a tool of justice, and the consequences are dire.

By ACLU

Immigrant communities are often asked to “get right with the law,” but is the law right in the first place? That’s what our guest Alina Das asks in her new book No Justice in the Shadows. She taps her experience as the daughter of immigrants and as an immigration attorney to ask whether...

It's time that we abolish the doctrine and begin funneling resources away from law enforcement and into community services.

By April Rodriguez

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate an FDA restriction on medication for early abortion that disproportionately harms...

By Rachel Reeves

Tech companies provide access to the sensitive personal information used to destroy communities and undermine the rights that we work every day to...

By Vasudha Talla

Millions have poured onto the streets to yell “Black Lives Matter.” Advocates from Black immigrant communities say that should include theirs...

By Ashoka Mukpo

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, people across the country face the economic devastation left in its wake. Along with staggering unemployment numbers, millions of renters now face eviction — a situation made even more dire by the global health crisis. Congress responded by instating an...