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Your Questions Answered: What is Redistricting and Why Should We Care?
The Supreme Court recently made a ruling that blows open the door for states and localities to create discriminatory voting maps. Here’s what you need to know about redistricting and voting rights in light of this decision.
By ACLU
Your Questions Answered: What is Redistricting and Why Should We Care?Podcast
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.
Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers
ACLU class-action lawsuit urges state of Colorado to release children from jails to community-based settings while awaiting decisions in their juvenile delinquency cases. Kids with disabilities and foster children are particularly vulnerable.
By Elisa Epstein, Quinn Phillips
Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers
Live Coverage: Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS Decision
The Supreme Court just struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
By ACLU
Live Coverage: Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS Decision
Deaths in Detention: ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps into Warehouses Despite Record Deaths
Despite abhorrent conditions and increasing deaths in ICE detention, the Trump administration’s new warehouse detention system would increase capacity to 96,000 people and undoubtedly lead to continued abuse.
By Haddy Gassama
Deaths in Detention: ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps into Warehouses Despite Record DeathsPodcast
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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Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”
Human rights workers say people deported to Guatemala under a new Trump administration practice face dangerous conditions and an asylum system that...
By Ashoka Mukpo
Human rights workers say people deported to Guatemala under a new Trump administration practice face dangerous conditions and an asylum system that...
By Ashoka Mukpo
What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective
Our authorities need to respond with cool heads, based on science, and without intruding any more than strictly necessary on people’s civil...
By Jay Stanley
Our authorities need to respond with cool heads, based on science, and without intruding any more than strictly necessary on people’s civil...
By Jay Stanley
Trump’s Three Year Campaign to Separate Families: The Muslim Ban
With the NO BAN Act, Congress has the opportunity to right the administration’s, and the Supreme Court’s, wrong, and prevent Trump from harming...
By Manar Waheed
With the NO BAN Act, Congress has the opportunity to right the administration’s, and the Supreme Court’s, wrong, and prevent Trump from harming...
By Manar Waheed
In Latest Encryption Battle with Apple, Justice Department Still Wrong
Law enforcement does not have the authority to commandeer third parties into becoming its undercover agents or hackers.
By Jennifer Stisa Granick
Law enforcement does not have the authority to commandeer third parties into becoming its undercover agents or hackers.
By Jennifer Stisa Granick
Fighting for Justice After Execution
In 2017, Arkansas announced a plan to execute eight people in 10 days because the state’s lethal injection drugs were about to expire. The first person executed was Ledell Lee. He was convicted of the 1993 murder of Debra Reese and sentenced to death. But his trials and appeals were plagued by...
In 2017, Arkansas announced a plan to execute eight people in 10 days because the state’s lethal injection drugs were about to expire. The first person executed was Ledell Lee. He was convicted of the 1993 murder of Debra Reese and sentenced to death. But his trials and appeals were plagued by...
Amendment 4 is Still on the Line. Here’s What’s New.
The right to vote should never come with a price tag. As we go back to court, we're confident the Eleventh Circuit will agree.
By Orion Danjuma, Jonathan Topaz, Leila Rafei
The right to vote should never come with a price tag. As we go back to court, we're confident the Eleventh Circuit will agree.
By Orion Danjuma, Jonathan Topaz, Leila Rafei
The National Archives Doctored A Women’s March Photo Critical of Trump. We’re Demanding Answers.
Altering the photo — and thereby rewriting history — was nothing less than Orwellian.
By Louise Melling
Altering the photo — and thereby rewriting history — was nothing less than Orwellian.
By Louise Melling
47 Years Later, We’re Fighting to Make Roe a Reality Everywhere
As we commemorate the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, the fight for abortion access continues. Here's how it will play out in 2020.
By Jessica Arons
As we commemorate the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, the fight for abortion access continues. Here's how it will play out in 2020.
By Jessica Arons
CBP Deported an Iranian Student With Valid Visa, Defying Court Order
In the United States, nobody is above the law — not even CBP. We will continue to fight in legislatures, in courtrooms, and on the streets to...
By Carol Rose
In the United States, nobody is above the law — not even CBP. We will continue to fight in legislatures, in courtrooms, and on the streets to...
By Carol Rose
"Fight of the Century" Looks at 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
The passage below is an excerpt from the new book, "Fight of the Century," edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, with essays from some of...
By Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon
The passage below is an excerpt from the new book, "Fight of the Century," edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, with essays from some of...
By Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon
