Press Releases
Jul 02, 2019
ACLU Statement on Metro Transit Police Officer’s Use of Taser on Bystander
WASHINGTON – On Saturday evening June 22 at a platform in the U St. Metro station, Metro Transit Police Officer Jonathan Costanzo tasered Metro customer Tapiwa Musonza as he was ...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Jul 01, 2019
Court Says Woman who was Assaulted in Immigration Detention Facility Gets Her Day in Court
PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court ruled today ruled that E.D., an asylum-seeker, could move forward with her claims against the Berks County Residential Center, a family immigrant ...
Court case: E.D. v. Sharkey
Jun 28, 2019
Federal Court Permanently Blocks Billions of Dollars in Border Wall Construction
OAKLAND — A federal court today permanently blocked the Trump administration from accessing $2.5 billion in military funds for the president’s border wall, ruling that the admi...
Jun 28, 2019
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Georgia Abortion Ban
Extreme Law Takes Direct Aim at Right to Abortion Guaranteed by Roe v. Wade
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: SisterSong v. Kemp
Jun 28, 2019
Groups Sue to Block New Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration
Federal lawsuit filed immediately after governor signed bill into law
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: Gruver v. Barton
Jun 28, 2019
Supreme Court Declines to Review Case Challenging Alabama Abortion Restriction
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today declined to review a unanimous decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals striking down an Alabama abortion restriction.
The restrict...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
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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.