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What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today
In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitutional. It's led to an array of landmark decisions that continue to protect our civil liberties today.
By Vanessa Mbonu, Hibah Ansari
What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power TodayPodcast
The Case That Gave the Modern Supreme Court Its Power
Did you know that today’s justice system in the United States originated from a hiring dispute? This week, Matt and Shereen are taking us back to the early 1800s to explore the origins of...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.
ACLU breaks down findings from our latest report on how mass deportations are breaking our democracy.
By Naureen Shah
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
The ACLU could have its busiest Supreme Court term ever, with potential cases on immigration, voting rights, and religious freedom in schools.
By Cecillia Wang
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding.
The ACLU argued in court that Trump administration officials broke the law by defying a judge’s order and sending 100 Venezuelan men to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador without due process.
By Hibah Ansari, Shereen Marisol Meraji
Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding.Podcast
The Case That Gave the Modern Supreme Court Its Power
Did you know that today’s justice system in the United States originated from a hiring dispute? This week, Matt and Shereen are taking us back to the early 1800s to explore the origins of...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
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Minneapolis’s Body Camera Policy Will Have ‘Teeth’ When Police Enforce It
By Teresa Nelson
By Teresa Nelson
The Supreme Court Gives Police a Green Light to ‘Shoot First and Think Later’
By Emma Andersson
By Emma Andersson
The Rise of Platform Authoritarianism
Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, with real dangers to anti-discrimination and privacy principles.
By Ifeoma Ajunwa
Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, with real dangers to anti-discrimination and privacy principles.
By Ifeoma Ajunwa
With AI and Criminal Justice, the Devil Is in the Data
If we have learned anything in the last decade about our criminal justice system, it is how astonishingly dysfunctional it is
By Vincent Southerland
If we have learned anything in the last decade about our criminal justice system, it is how astonishingly dysfunctional it is
By Vincent Southerland
Trans Ohioans Are Asking for Basic Human Dignity
By James Esseks
By James Esseks
What Lurks Behind All That Immigration Data?
In the context of America’s history of cloaking nativist and racist policies in pseudo-scientific language, we need to be vigilant in ensuring...
By Erica Posey, Rachel Levinson-Waldman
In the context of America’s history of cloaking nativist and racist policies in pseudo-scientific language, we need to be vigilant in ensuring...
By Erica Posey, Rachel Levinson-Waldman
Facebook Is Tracking Me Even Though I’m Not on Facebook
By Daniel Kahn Gillmor
By Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The Power of Prosecutors
Prosecutors can end mass incarceration — today.
By ACLU
Prosecutors can end mass incarceration — today.
By ACLU
We Took on Our School’s Sexist Dress Code, and We Won
By Victoria Schantz
By Victoria Schantz
The Exile: In Memory of Judge Stephen Reinhardt
By Ben Wizner
By Ben Wizner
