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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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Using Cyanide Gas in Executions is an Affront to Jewish Values
Arizona’s use of Zyklon B should shock the conscience of all Americans.
By Tim Eckstein
Arizona’s use of Zyklon B should shock the conscience of all Americans.
By Tim Eckstein
What if Algorithms Worked For Accused People, Instead of Against Them?
We created an algorithmic tool to find out what risks the criminal legal system poses to the people entering it, rather than their risk to "public...
By Aaron Horowitz, Kristian Lum, Erica Marshall, Mikaela Meyer
We created an algorithmic tool to find out what risks the criminal legal system poses to the people entering it, rather than their risk to "public...
By Aaron Horowitz, Kristian Lum, Erica Marshall, Mikaela Meyer
Alok Vaid-Menon Wants You to Reimagine Gender
This year brings an unprecedented surge of anti-trans legislation banning everything from sports participation to healthcare access. So far,...
This year brings an unprecedented surge of anti-trans legislation banning everything from sports participation to healthcare access. So far,...
The Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Policing is a Foundation to Build Upon
Two years after the murder of George Floyd, a new executive order on police reform offers a starting place, but does not go far enough.
By Rachael Eisenberg, Kate Kahan, Nicole Lee Ndumele, Udi Ofer
Two years after the murder of George Floyd, a new executive order on police reform offers a starting place, but does not go far enough.
By Rachael Eisenberg, Kate Kahan, Nicole Lee Ndumele, Udi Ofer
From Japanese American Incarceration to the China Initiative, Discrimination Against AAPI Communities Must End
Our institutions and our country must live up to our American ideals and values, and stop the cycle of profiling and discrimination.
By Gisela Perez Kusakawa
Our institutions and our country must live up to our American ideals and values, and stop the cycle of profiling and discrimination.
By Gisela Perez Kusakawa
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their Playbook
Supreme Court decision season is upon us, and with that, we wait for the final opinion in the Mississippi abortion ban case that could overturn Roe...
Supreme Court decision season is upon us, and with that, we wait for the final opinion in the Mississippi abortion ban case that could overturn Roe...
On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Mass Deportation
Activists are defending immigrant communities from harmful partnerships between local law enforcement and ICE.
By Leila Rafei
Activists are defending immigrant communities from harmful partnerships between local law enforcement and ICE.
By Leila Rafei
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant Trauma
May marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. To mark the importance of this month and how it...
May marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. To mark the importance of this month and how it...
What You Need to Know About ACLU Artist Ambassadors, Including Amber Heard
ACLU Artist Ambassadors volunteer their talents and platforms to elevate civil rights and civil liberties.
By ACLU
ACLU Artist Ambassadors volunteer their talents and platforms to elevate civil rights and civil liberties.
By ACLU
Impending Threat of Abortion Criminalization Brings New Urgency to the Fight for Digital Privacy
As the Supreme Court nears a ruling that could allow abortion to be criminalized by politicians, privacy activists and lawmakers must shift our...
By Kade Crockford, Nathan Freed Wessler
As the Supreme Court nears a ruling that could allow abortion to be criminalized by politicians, privacy activists and lawmakers must shift our...
By Kade Crockford, Nathan Freed Wessler
