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Jun 26, 2025
ACLU Joins Calls to Gov. Newsom to Commute All Death Sentences as State Supreme Court Reviews Constitutional Challenge
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The American Civil Liberties Union joined the growing chorus of calls to Gov. Newsom to commute all death sentences on California’s death row to life witho...
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Jun 26, 2025
ACLU Responds to Supreme Court Greenlighting State Efforts to “Defund” Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled today that Medicaid patients do not have a right to sue to enforce their right to a qualified health care provider of choice under the Medica...
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom Women's Rights
Jun 26, 2025
Supreme Court Affirms First Step Act Sentencing Reductions
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled today that the sentencing reductions under the First Step Act of 2018 apply to people whose pre-Act sentences are vacated and who are subject...
Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform
Jun 26, 2025
ICE Can’t be Allowed to Corrupt Virginia’s Judicial System 
RICHMOND, Va. – In response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions at the Chesterfield County Courthouse today, ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Mary Bauer re...
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Jun 24, 2025
Partisan Gerrymandering Case Reaches South Carolina Supreme Court
COLUMBIA – Nonpartisan civil rights organizations argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court today that the state constitution forbids partisan gerrymandering, or the rigging...
Issue Areas: Voting Rights
Court case: League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
Jun 24, 2025
As Communities Mobilize Against Increasing ICE Abuses, Members of Congress Must Fulfill Their Responsibility to Conduct Oversight of Immigration Detention
Washington, DC — The American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, and the National Immigrant Justice Center today released a new guide for members of Congress to cond...
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
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