Press Releases
Apr 01, 2021
Federal Court Rules that Medical Care at Angola Violates Eighth Amendment Prohibition on Cruel and Unusual Punishment
NEW ORLEANS – In response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Louisiana, along with The Promise of Justice Initiative, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Disability Rights Lou...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 01, 2021
Unlikely Allies from Across the Political Spectrum Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Students’ Free Speech Rights
NEW YORK — More than 100 organizations, more than 250 individuals, and nine Republican state attorneys general filed briefs yesterday urging the Supreme Court to protect young pe...
Apr 01, 2021
NYCLU on New York Ending Long-Term Solitary Confinement
ALBANY, N.Y. – Governor Cuomo signed the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement (HALT) Act into law, preventing some of the most harmful aspects of solitary confin...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Mar 31, 2021
Journalists Win Victory in Freedom of the Press Case Filed by ACLU
NEW YORK — In a win for freedom of the press, a U.S. District Court judge yesterday denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss a case against the Department of Homeland...
Mar 31, 2021
Texas’ Highest Criminal Court Agrees to Review Crystal Mason Case
AUSTIN, Texas — The Court of Criminal Appeals today granted review of the case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to five years in prison for filling out a provisional ballot th...
Court case: Crystal Mason v. State of Texas
Mar 31, 2021
NYCLU on New York Legalizing Marijuana for Adult Use
ALBANY, N.Y. – Today, Governor Cuomo signed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) into law, the nation’s most comprehensive policy to legalize, tax, and regulate mar...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
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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.