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Care Denied: West Virginia's Ban on Methadone Clinics Blocks Life-Saving Medicine
The ACLU is suing the state of West Virginia for its moratorium on clinics providing methadone, an opioid treatment that cuts the risk of overdose deaths in half.
By Sarah Stone, Joe Solomon
Care Denied: West Virginia's Ban on Methadone Clinics Blocks Life-Saving MedicinePodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
Defending Our Rights Under a Second Trump Administration
From blocking unconstitutional orders to mobilizing millions, here’s how we're fighting back and what comes next.
'I Have No Rights': Minnesota Residents Sue Trump Administration for Racial Profiling, Stops Without Suspicion, and Warrantless Arrests
Immigration arrests have upended life in Minnesota as citizens detail unlawful and violent interactions with ICE in court testimonies as part of an ACLU lawsuit against the Trump administration.
By Hibah Ansari
'I Have No Rights': Minnesota Residents Sue Trump Administration for Racial Profiling, Stops Without Suspicion, and Warrantless Arrests
One Year Later: Georgetown Scholar Illegally Detained for His Speech Returns to Court
The ACLU is in court this week with Dr. Badar Khan Suri fighting the Trump administration’s unconstitutional attempt to re-detain him for exercising his First Amendment rights.
By Noor Zafar, Ellessandra Taormino
One Year Later: Georgetown Scholar Illegally Detained for His Speech Returns to Court
Trump is Attacking a Crucial Fair Housing Rule that Protects Against Discrimination
The disparate impact rule is a long-held housing protection for survivors of domestic violence, women of color and other marginalized groups. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced plans to end the policy.
By Linda Morris, Ashley Johnson
Trump is Attacking a Crucial Fair Housing Rule that Protects Against DiscriminationPodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
Defending Our Rights Under a Second Trump Administration
From blocking unconstitutional orders to mobilizing millions, here’s how we're fighting back and what comes next.
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The Myth of the "Bad" Immigrant
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...
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...
Lower Courts Agree — It's Time to End Qualified Immunity
It's time that we abolish the doctrine and begin funneling resources away from law enforcement and into community services.
By April Rodriguez
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's Attack on Abortion Access Disproportionately Harms Communities of Color Already Devastated by COVID-19
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate an FDA restriction on medication for early abortion that disproportionately harms...
By Rachel Reeves
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate an FDA restriction on medication for early abortion that disproportionately harms...
By Rachel Reeves
ACLU Calls On Tech Companies to End Their Alliance with ICE and CBP
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
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
For Black Immigrants, Police and ICE Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Millions have poured onto the streets to yell “Black Lives Matter.” Advocates from Black immigrant communities say that should include theirs...
By Ashoka Mukpo
Millions have poured onto the streets to yell “Black Lives Matter.” Advocates from Black immigrant communities say that should include theirs...
By Ashoka Mukpo
Why Evicting Millions During a Pandemic is Bad for Our Democracy
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...
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...
My Brother’s Not Afraid of Much. With COVID-19 in Prison, He’s Scared Out of His Mind.
Scott Clements, a lifelong New Jerseyan, is fighting to save the life of his brother Brian, who faces a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 in...
By Scott Clements
Scott Clements, a lifelong New Jerseyan, is fighting to save the life of his brother Brian, who faces a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 in...
By Scott Clements
Why Evicting Millions During a Pandemic is Bad For Our Democracy
In spite of the CDC's partial moratorium on evictions, tenants nationwide remain vulnerable.
By ACLU
In spite of the CDC's partial moratorium on evictions, tenants nationwide remain vulnerable.
By ACLU
The Law Enforcement Violence Trump Won’t Talk About
Law enforcement officers have used sharpshooters to maim people, swept protesters away in unmarked cars, and brutally attacked journalists, legal...
By Abdullah Hasan
Law enforcement officers have used sharpshooters to maim people, swept protesters away in unmarked cars, and brutally attacked journalists, legal...
By Abdullah Hasan
A Tennessee Law Requires Doctors to Lie to Their Patients. We’re Suing.
State politicians passed a law compelling doctors to knowingly mislead their patients, in violation of both of their constitutional rights — the...
By Andrew Beck
State politicians passed a law compelling doctors to knowingly mislead their patients, in violation of both of their constitutional rights — the...
By Andrew Beck
