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Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
ACLU experts break down how data centers negatively impact communities, violate civil liberties, and how we can respond.
By Jina John
Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesPodcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and 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
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.Podcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
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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ACLU and Other Groups Ask for Emergency Hearing on the Muslim Ban from International Human Rights Body
By Joshua Manson
By Joshua Manson
This Supreme Court Case Could Affect Trans Lives for Generations
By Chase Strangio
By Chase Strangio
New Documents Show This TSA Program Blamed for Profiling Is Unscientific and Unreliable — But Still It Continues
Donald Trump’s Pick for the EPA Is Stonewalling on Releasing Records Linking Him to the Fossil Fuel Industry, So We’re Suing for His Compliance
By Allie Shinn
By Allie Shinn
ACLU Announces Expansion Plan to Fight Trump Policies
By Anthony D. Romero
By Anthony D. Romero
Flying Home From Abroad, a Border Agent Stopped and Questioned Me … About My Work for the ACLU
By Hina Shamsi
By Hina Shamsi
Court Leaders Nationwide Send Message to Debtors’ Prisons: Courts Are Not ATMs.
Racial Disparities in Student Arrests Is An Epidemic Affecting Children Nationwide
Approaching the education of children through law and order policies is wrong.
By Sarah Hinger
Approaching the education of children through law and order policies is wrong.
By Sarah Hinger
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Has a Troubling History When Ruling on Disability Rights Cases
Trump's Muslim Ban Flies in the Face of International Law and Treaties the US Has Ratified
By Jamil Dakwar
By Jamil Dakwar
