Press Releases
Dec 11, 2018
ACLU on Trump Promise to Shut Down Government Over Border Wall
WASHINGTON — In a meeting with Democratic leadership today, President Trump pledged to veto a budget agreement for the Department of Homeland Security if it did not include his r...
Dec 11, 2018
ACLU Statement on Reports of FIRST STEP Act Moving Forward in Senate
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today that he will bring a bipartisan criminal justice reform package, the FIRST STEP Act, to the floor for a Senate...
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Dec 10, 2018
ACLU Publishes Comments Criticizing Proposed Rule on Public Charge
Trump Administration Proposal Aims to Block Immigrants with Disabilities
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Dec 07, 2018
ACLU Comment on Nomination of Barr to be Attorney General
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced this morning that William P. Barr will be put forward as attorney general.
Faiz Shakir, American Civil Liberties Union national po...
Dec 03, 2018
Federal Lawsuit Challenges Florida Sheriff Over ICE Collaboration
KEY WEST, Fla. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of ...
Nov 30, 2018
ACLU Wins Change of Charleston Schools’ Policy That Discriminated Against Pregnant Workers and New Mothers
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina have settled a federal pregnancy discrimination case against the Charleston County School Dis...
Issue Areas:
Women's Rights
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News & CommentaryJan 2026
Free Speech
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Two journalists are challenging a law that threatens press freedom in an attempt to ban misinformation. -
News & CommentaryJan 2026
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
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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.