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Your Questions Answered: How the ACLU Is Safeguarding the 2026 Midterms
President Trump and his allies are trying to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections. Here’s what that means for your vote, and how the ACLU is fighting back to ensure power remains where it belongs — in the hands of voters.
By Sophia Lin Lakin, Molly McGrath
Your Questions Answered: How the ACLU Is Safeguarding the 2026 MidtermsPodcast
What Happens When the President Defies a Judge?
On March 15, 2025, the Trump administration deported more than 100 people to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador — in defiance of a federal judge’s orders. They hadn’t been found...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
NIH Censors Crucial Research in Alzheimer's, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share
NIH is targeting and terminating grants for research studies that it thinks will communicate disfavored viewpoints on diversity, gender identity, climate change, and more, violating First Amendment rights and threatening the future of public health.
By Amanda Walgrove
NIH Censors Crucial Research in Alzheimer's, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share
Meet the Hosts: ACLU Launches New Podcast 'Let the Record Show'
Hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Matthew Beat give a glimpse into the ACLU’s new podcast covering some of the most influential court cases in history.
By Hibah Ansari
Meet the Hosts: ACLU Launches New Podcast 'Let the Record Show'
Deaths in Detention: Mortality Rate for People Detained by ICE More Than Doubles Under Trump Administration
Due to recent cuts to reporting requirements of deaths occurring after release, the complete number of deaths in and outside of detention could be even higher.
By Sofia Gonzalez
Deaths in Detention: Mortality Rate for People Detained by ICE More Than Doubles Under Trump AdministrationPodcast
What Happens When the President Defies a Judge?
On March 15, 2025, the Trump administration deported more than 100 people to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador — in defiance of a federal judge’s orders. They hadn’t been found...
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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Net Neutrality: Securing Equality Online
Openness and equality are what have allowed the Internet to thrive.
By Sandra Fulton
Openness and equality are what have allowed the Internet to thrive.
By Sandra Fulton
Ending Double Victimization of Domestic Violence Survivors
Valentines from the New York Times and NYCLU
While we fight in the courts for federal recognition of the marriages of same-sex couples, the New York Civil Liberties Union is encouraging New...
By Sam Ritchie
While we fight in the courts for federal recognition of the marriages of same-sex couples, the New York Civil Liberties Union is encouraging New...
By Sam Ritchie
And Now, To The Senate!
Today, House leadership brought up the Patriot extension for a simple majority vote. And thus, the extension through December 8, 2011 passed the...
By Allie Bohm
Today, House leadership brought up the Patriot extension for a simple majority vote. And thus, the extension through December 8, 2011 passed the...
By Allie Bohm
In Court Today In South Carolina - Holding Officials Accountable For Torture
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By Katie Smith
By Katie Smith
Senator Webb Gives Shout Out to ACLU's Work in Support of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act
By Dan Zeidman
By Dan Zeidman
ACLU Joins Republicans and Democrats to Streamline Maryland’s Bloated Prison System
By Inimai Chettiar
By Inimai Chettiar