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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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By Suzanne Ito
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Reform in New York's Juvenile Justice System
By Mie Lewis
By Mie Lewis
New Torture Documents, Same Old Story
Recently received documents detail more serious detainee abuses in CIA custody that were previously unknown.
By Ateqah Khaki
Recently received documents detail more serious detainee abuses in CIA custody that were previously unknown.
By Ateqah Khaki
Wake Up CA Assembly! Who are You Punishing with this Prison Budget?
By Natasha Minsker
By Natasha Minsker
Jawad Released Home to Afghanistan
The horrors that Mohammed Jawad faced at Guantánamo are not unusual. It needs to be closed.
By Suzanne Ito
The horrors that Mohammed Jawad faced at Guantánamo are not unusual. It needs to be closed.
By Suzanne Ito
CIA Torture Report Due Monday
By Suzanne Ito
By Suzanne Ito
America is Not Yet a Post-Racial Society
By Tiffany Donnelly
By Tiffany Donnelly
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By Rachel Garver
By Rachel Garver