Press Releases
Apr 15, 2021
North Dakota Senate Passes Discriminatory Anti-Transgender Sports Bill
Today, Senate lawmakers voted to pass legislation that will prohibit transgender student athletes from playing sports on teams that match their gender identity. The vote opens the ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Apr 14, 2021
ACLU of Minnesota Sues to Stop Attack on Journalists Covering Daunte Wright Protests
The ACLU of Minnesota filed a motion in federal court Wednesday for a temporary restraining order to stop law enforcement from attacking and harassing reporters covering the Daunte...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Racial Justice
Apr 14, 2021
Final Agreement Reached with Sussex County, Delaware in Reassessment Track of Delaware Public Schools Litigation
WILMINGTON, Del. — Arnold & Porter, ACLU of Delaware, and Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI), along with the plaintiffs, Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and th...
Apr 14, 2021
ACLU of Maryland Comment on Former Maryland Medical Examiner Defending Police Killings of George Floyd, Anton Black
GREENSBORO, Md. – One of the witnesses for Derek Chauvin defending him in his murder trial in the killing of George Floyd, Dr. David Fowler, is currently being sued by the family...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Apr 14, 2021
ACLU Statement on Biden Administration Proposed Title X Rule
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration proposed a new federal rule to restore the Title X family planning program, which had been gutted under the Trump presidency.
The new rule w...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Apr 14, 2021
ACLU Statement on House Committee’s Passage of NO BAN Act
WASHINGTON – The House Judiciary Committee today passed HR 1333, the NO BAN Act. The legislation, which is endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union, would set a higher stan...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
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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.