Press Releases
Dec 16, 2022
Second Circuit Dismisses Challenge to Connecticut’s Trans-Inclusive Student Athletics Policy
CONTACT:Gillian Branstetter, ACLU, gbranstetter@aclu.orgMeghan Holden, ACLU Foundation of Connecticut, media@acluct.org
NEW YORK – In a victory for transgender youth, the Second ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Soule et al v. CT Association of Schools et al
Dec 16, 2022
Ohio’s First District Court of Appeals Denies State’s Request to Take Up Six-Week Abortion Ban, Sends Case Back to Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
CINCINNATI – Today, the First District Court of Appeals denied the State’s request to take up the appeal of the preliminary injunction granted by the Hamilton County Court of C...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: Preterm-Cleveland v. David Yost
Dec 16, 2022
Voting Rights Advocates Challenge At-Large Election Method in Dodge City, Kansas
DODGE CITY, Kan. — Voting rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday evening challenging the at-large method of elections in Dodge City, Kansas, charging it unlawfully dil...
Court case: Coca v. City of Dodge City
Dec 15, 2022
Broad Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Calls on the Biden Administration to Launch Effort to Explore Establishing a National Human Rights Body
NEW YORK — A coalition of civil and human rights and social justice groups and academic partners called on the Biden administration today to establish a presidential commission t...
Issue Areas:
Human Rights
Dec 13, 2022
ACLU Commends Oregon Governor for Commuting State’s Death Row
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has commuted the state’s death row, using her power of clemency to spare 17 people from being executed by the state. Oregon has had a morat...
Issue Areas:
Capital Punishment
Dec 13, 2022
ACLU Urges Biden Administration Not to Revive Illegal Trump-era Transit Ban Gutting Asylum Protections
WASHINGTON — According to new reporting by NBC, the Biden administration is pushing forward with plans that would severely limit the number of migrants who would have their asylu...
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New MexicoDec 2025
Voting Rights
United States V. Oliver. Explore Case.United States v. Oliver
The Department of Justice sued New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, demanding the state produce its full, unredacted voter file, which contains highly sensitive and personal data on every voter in the state. This suit appears to be part of the federal government's efforts to build a national voter database without congressional authorization and to improperly question the validity of state voter rolls. -
News & CommentaryJan 2026
Free Speech
How A Covid-era Law Banning ‘fake News’ In Puerto Rico Targets The Press. Explore News & Commentary.How a COVID-era Law Banning ‘Fake News’ in Puerto Rico Targets the Press
Two journalists are challenging a law that threatens press freedom in an attempt to ban misinformation. -
News & CommentaryJan 2026
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
How To Give The Government New Power To “un-person” Someone, In Three Easy Steps. Explore News & Commentary.How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps
States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked -
Washington, D.C.Dec 2025
Civil Liberties
Voting Rights
United States V. Evans. Explore Case.United States v. Evans
Representing Common Cause and two D.C. voters, the ACLU Voting Rights Project and has filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit over the federal government’s demand that D.C. turn over its entire voter registration rolls, including voters’ sensitive personal data such as drivers’ license numbers and partial social security numbers.