Press Releases
Feb 22, 2021
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Challenging Trump-Era Title X Rule
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to review three consolidated cases today challenging the Trump administration’s rule affecting the Title X national family planning pr...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Feb 19, 2021
Court Rules Missouri’s Waiting List for Public Defender Violate Constitutional Right to Counsel
Judge Gives Legislature Four Months to Fix the Problem
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Feb 19, 2021
ACLU Responds to Gloucester County School Board Taking Gavin Grimm’s Case Back to the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today responded to the Gloucester County School Board’s request to the Supreme Court to again take up Gavin Grimm’s case. The ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board
Feb 19, 2021
ACLU of Vermont Statement on Border Patrol’s Proposed “Video Surveillance System Project”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is inviting public comments on a proposal to construct eight surveillance towers in northern Vermont, at sites across the towns of Derby, F...
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Feb 19, 2021
ACLU Comment on Biden Migration Protection Protocols Action
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will today begin allowing some of the thousands of asylum seekers languishing in Mexico under the Trump-era Migration Protection Protocols p...
Court case: Innovation Law Lab v. Wolf
Feb 18, 2021
ACLU Outlines Key Priorities for Biden’s Department of Justice
WASHINGTON — Ahead of Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland's Senate confirmation hearing, the American Civil Liberties Union urged him to make strong, on-the-record commitm...
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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.