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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 StakePodcast
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.
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 Today
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.
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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Homeland Security Unlawfully Ended DACA Protections for Some Dreamers
Students’ Rights: Speech, Walkouts, and Other Protests
If you’re a public school student, you don’t check your constitutional rights at the schoolhouse doors. But whether schools can punish you for...
By ACLU
If you’re a public school student, you don’t check your constitutional rights at the schoolhouse doors. But whether schools can punish you for...
By ACLU
A Supreme Court Rebuke to the Trump Administration on DACA
By Michael Tan
By Michael Tan
A Big Victory for LGBT People, and a Big Loss for the Trump Administration
By Ria Tabacco Mar
By Ria Tabacco Mar
A Mother and Child Fled the Congo, Only to Be Cruelly Separated by the US Government
By Jenny Samuels
By Jenny Samuels
New Data Reveals Milwaukee Police Stops Are About Race and Ethnicity
Public-Sector Union Fees Don’t Violate the First Amendment
By Amanda Shanor
By Amanda Shanor
There's No Such Thing as 'Consensual Sex' When a Person Is in Police Custody
By Katharine Bodde, Erika Lorshbough
By Katharine Bodde, Erika Lorshbough
Can Schools Discipline Students for Protesting?
By Vera Eidelman
By Vera Eidelman
6 South Carolina Legislators Want Same-Sex Marriages to Be Called 'Parody Marriages'
By Shaundra Young Scott
By Shaundra Young Scott
