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Oct 14, 2025
ACLU Statement on the Passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
NEW YORK - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a lifelong organizer and activist for the safety and dignity of transgender people, sex workers, and the incarcerated, passed away yesterday, a...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights Prisoners' Rights
Oct 09, 2025
ACLU and NYCLU Statement on the Trump Administration’s Indictment of NY State Attorney General Letitia James
NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted New York State Attorney General Letitia James. This indictment follows President Trump’s direct instruction to U.S. At...
Oct 08, 2025
New Report Reveals Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Misled Public by Massively Inflating Costs of Court-Ordered Reforms
The records show that 72 percent of the costs MCSO billed to the County were unrelated to Ortega Melendres
Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform
Court case: Ortega Melendres, et al. v. Arpaio, et al.
Oct 07, 2025
ACLU to Federal Appeals Court: White House Retaliation Against Disfavored Reporters Puts U.S. in Dangerous Company
The Associated Press sued in February over their exclusion from the White House Press Pool for refusing to use the term ‘Gulf of America’
Issue Areas: Free Speech
Oct 06, 2025
Transgender People Ask Supreme Court to Reject Trump Administration Effort to Enforce Discriminatory Passport Policy
BOSTON – Attorneys representing transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans asked the Supreme Court today to reject a request from the Trump administration to stay a prelimina...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Orr v. Trump
Oct 04, 2025
ACLU Statement on Court Blocking Trump’s Unwarranted National Guard Deployment to Portland
PORTLAND, OR — A federal district court today granted Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s and the City of Portland’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO), blocking the Tr...
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