Human rights advocates challenged the legality of U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean during a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, arguing the policy violates domestic and international law and has caused widespread harm to Latin American communities.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to allow federal agencies to restrict transgender employees to bathrooms corresponding with their sex assigned at birth, overturning nearly a decade of workplace protections.
Eight people have been convicted on terrorism charges for their alleged ties to the antifa movement, raising concerns about the potential criminalization of protest activity and the limits of First Amendment protections.
The number of habeas corpus petitions filed by ICE detainees nationwide is declining as the Trump administration rolls back its hardline immigration enforcement policies, though regional spikes highlight the ongoing legal battle.
Artificial Intelligence is transforming American elections by lowering the cost of campaign messaging, potentially allowing insurgent or underfunded candidates to compete with well-financed incumbents, while also introducing risks such as deepfakes and anonymous disinformation.
The Texas Supreme Court has ordered PFLAG to turn over records to the state attorney general’s office as part of an investigation into banned medical care for transgender minors, reversing a lower court decision.
Human Rights Watch has reported that over 9,000 Salvadorans deported from the US since January 2025 have been forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained in El Salvador’s prison system without access to lawyers, family members or judicial review.
Carmen Mejía was released from the Travis County Jail in Austin after a judge declared her “actually innocent” in a two-decade-long case involving the death of an infant she had been babysitting, but was then detained by ICE due to her lapsed legal status, until the hold was reversed, allowing her to regain her freedom and begin rebuilding her life.
The Prison Policy Initiative’s new report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026, found that the rise in the number of people behind bars in the United States was largely driven by immigration detention, which increased by 58% between 2025 and 2026, accounting for nearly all of the growth in the total incarcerated population over the past year.
The Trump administration has announced plans to end the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s use of the disparate impact rule, which has been used to protect survivors of domestic violence, women of color, and other marginalized groups from housing discrimination.
Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, a Skokie woman born in Illinois, was wrongfully detained at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, along with two other U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, raising concerns about the treatment of U.S. citizens by federal authorities and prompting progressive candidate for Congress in Illinois’ 7th District and immigrant rights organizer Anabel Mendoza to criticize federal immigration enforcement agencies.
Amnesty International has condemned a recent U.S. military strike in international waters that reportedly killed six people, calling for an independent investigation and describing the operation as an “extrajudicial killing”.
A judge in Kansas rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to block the enforcement of SB 244, a state law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows anyone to sue someone they suspect of being transgender for using the “wrong” restroom in government buildings.
A Kansas district court judge declined to temporarily block enforcement of a new state law that invalidates updated driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender people and restricts restroom access in government buildings, allowing the measure to remain in effect while litigation proceeds.
Alex Wang discussed China’s growing influence in global clean energy and the tensions surrounding its environmental leadership, contrasting the US and China’s approaches to green development and highlighting the need for collaboration between the two countries.
New York lawmakers have proposed a $175 million investment in immigration legal defense programs, which immigrant advocacy organizations are praising as a critical step toward protecting immigrant families across the state.
Florida’s proposed House Bill 945, which would establish a state-run intelligence office with the authority to scrutinize individuals’ political views, has raised alarm among civil liberties advocates who warn it could lead to expanded domestic surveillance and erosion of First Amendment protections.
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University seeking access to extensive student admissions data, sparking alarm among legal scholars and civil rights advocates who warn the effort could weaponize information about race under the guise of transparency.
Immigrants in the US generated a fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion between 1994 and 2023, contributing more in taxes than they received in government benefits, according to a new report from the Cato Institute.
Pauli Murray’s legacy of advocating for racial and gender justice, the right to protest, and the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, continues to inspire the ACLU’s work today.