Press Releases
Apr 14, 2026
ACLU Comment on Appeals Court Panel Ruling on Alien Enemies Act Contempt Issue
WASHINGTON — In a 2-1 ruling, a federal appeals court panel today blocked a district court’s further steps in a criminal contempt inquiry against the Trump administration in a ...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: J.G.G. v. TRUMP
Apr 14, 2026
ACLU Sues Federal Officers for Violent Abduction of Lawful Immigrant During January ICE Operations
The case could re-establish the ability to hold federal agents accountable under state law. Advocates are representing an engineer who was violently abducted in downtown Portland.
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Carvajal-Muñoz v. Ravencamp
Apr 14, 2026
Woman Wrongly Jailed for Months Based on Faulty Facial Recognition Technology Demands Apology from Maryland Police Departments
In the letters sent by the ACLU, Kimberlee Williams also lays out the reforms needed to help ensure this never happens to someone else
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Court case: Kimberlee Williams Wrongful Arrest
Apr 13, 2026
ACLU and 75 Organizations Sound Alarm on Meta’s Plan to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban and Oakley Eyeglasses
Open letter signed by scores of nonprofits warns that the glasses pose an unacceptable threat to our right to privacy and must be cancelled
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Apr 13, 2026
New Report Finds Current Traffic Enforcement System Fails on Safety and Equity, Calls for Smarter Road Safety Strategies
NEW YORK – A new report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Policing Project at New York University School of Law finds that the United States’ current...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Apr 09, 2026
Trump Administration's Board of Immigration Appeals Denies Mahmoud Khalil’s Bid to Throw Out Deportation Case
The removal order cannot take effect while his habeas appeals continue
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Court case: Khalil v. Trump
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News & CommentaryApr 2026
Privacy & Technology
Municipalities: Beware Of Changes In Flock’s Legal Terms If You’re Using Or Considering License Plate Readers. Explore News & Commentary.Municipalities: Beware of Changes in Flock’s Legal Terms if You’re Using or Considering License Plate Readers
A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers -
News & CommentaryApr 2026
Immigrants' Rights
‘my Child Is Now A Political Debate’: Immigrant Families Respond As Arguments Wrap In Landmark Challenge Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats. Explore News & Commentary.‘My Child is Now a Political Debate’: Immigrant Families Respond as Arguments Wrap in Landmark Challenge against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats
Families share how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order upended their hopes, and forced them to consider early births or leaving the U.S. -
New YorkApr 2026
Reproductive Freedom
Immigrants' Rights
Aclu Et Al. V. U.s. Department Of Health And Human Services Et Al.. Explore Case.ACLU et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to demand transparency from the Trump administration regarding its treatment of pregnant unaccompanied immigrant youth in federal immigration custody. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the ACLU and NCYL’s February 2025 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records and correspondence from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which oversees the care and custody of unaccompanied immigrant youth until they are placed with a sponsor, usually a family member in the United States. The release of this information is important to monitor whether the Trump administration is ensuring that these marginalized young people have access to the full range of pregnancy-related care while in government custody, as is required by law. -
Tennessee Supreme CourtApr 2026
Capital Punishment
Tony Von Carruthers V. State Of Tennessee. Explore Case.Tony Von Carruthers v. State of Tennessee
Tennessee plans to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21 even though they refuse to run a simple fingerprint comparison and DNA testing that could prove what Tony has been arguing for 30 years - that he is innocent of this crime and that Tennessee convicted and sentenced the wrong man to death.