Press Releases
Jan 20, 2021
ACLU Applauds Biden Administration Order on LGBTQ Workplace Protections
Administration Must Now go Beyond Repealing Trump Admin Attacks and Provide Transgender and Non-Binary People with Accurate Federal IDs
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Jan 20, 2021
ACLU Comment on Biden Revocation of Trump Anti-Immigrant Census Policy
NEW YORK — President Biden has reportedly rescinded a Trump administration order that sought to illegally exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion ...
Court case: New York Immigration Coalition v. Trump
Jan 20, 2021
ACLU Statement on President-Elect Biden’s Day One Immigration Policies
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden this morning released fact sheets on his executive actions and day one bill on immigration that announced several immigration policies, includi...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jan 20, 2021
ACLU of Maine Statement on Piscataquis County Commissioners' Deliberate Violation of Maine's Open Meeting Law
Piscataquis County Commissioners violated Maine's open meeting law when they wrote and adopted a resolution in secret. The resolution, which contains misinformation about the coron...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Jan 20, 2021
ACLU Statement on Trump Administration Pardons
NEW YORK — On early Wednesday morning, the Trump administration announced over 100 presidential pardons, including political allies and contributors, Trump family friends, and ot...
Issue Areas:
Civil Liberties
Jan 19, 2021
ACLU Statement on Trump Administration’s 1776 Commission Report
NEW YORK — On Monday, the Trump White House released the report of the presidential “1776 Commission,” which both defends America’s founding on the basis of slavery and lik...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Civil Liberties
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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.