Press Releases

Aug 30, 2024

Voting Rights Groups Respond to Pennsylvania Court Decision on Handwritten Date Requirements for Mail Ballots

Court rules that disqualifying mail ballots for a missing or incorrect handwritten date violates the fundamental right to vote

Issue Areas: Voting Rights

Court case: Black Political Empowerment Project v. Schmidt

Aug 30, 2024

ACLU Releases Roadmap to Fight Mass Incarceration Under a Harris Administration

The roadmap continues the ACLU’s 2024 election policy memo series exploring likely policies from a potential Trump or Harris administration.

Aug 29, 2024

Trans People & Families File Lawsuit Against South Carolina’s Gender-Affirming Care Ban

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Transgender South Carolinians and their families are suing the state of South Carolina to block enforcement of a ban on gender-affirming healthcare. They are r...

Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Aug 28, 2024

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging U.S. Government’s Unlawful Detention and Inhumane Treatment of Acquitted Man

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian national who was acquitted of terrorism-related charges last year, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern D...

Issue Areas: National Security Immigrants' Rights

Aug 28, 2024

ACLU Releases Roadmap to Rein in Government Surveillance Under a Harris Administration

The roadmap continues the ACLU’s 2024 election policy memo series exploring likely policies from a potential Trump or Harris administration.

Issue Areas: National Security Privacy & Technology

Aug 27, 2024

Tennessee Families and Medical Provider Urge Supreme Court to Block Ban on Hormone Therapies for Transgender Youth

WASHINGTON – In a landmark upcoming Supreme Court case, transgender adolescents, their families, and a medical provider from Tennessee have urged the Supreme Court of the United ...

Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Court case: L.W. v. Skrmetti

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