The ACLU is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill that would criminalize the provision of gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 18, which the ACLU describes as the most extreme anti-transgender legislation ever considered by Congress.
Human rights organizations, including the ACLU, have reported physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, and intimidation to self-deport at the Fort Bliss immigration detention site in El Paso, Texas, revealing an unfolding humanitarian crisis.
The ACLU and other civil liberties groups are suing the Trump administration to force the release of the legal justification for the U.S. military’s unlawful and deadly strikes against civilian boats in international waters.
The ACLU released a report detailing a letter sent by human rights groups urging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end immigrant detention and halt deportations at Camp East Montana, a tent facility located at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, due to violent and abusive conditions.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to President Trump’s birthright citizenship ban, which has been repeatedly blocked by lower courts as unconstitutional, according to the ACLU.
A federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration from arresting immigrants in Washington, D.C. without a warrant or probable cause, following a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and CASA.
The League of Women Voters of Oregon and the ACLU of Oregon have filed a legal brief defending Oregon’s voter privacy protections in response to a federal lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking unredacted voter data.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring ICE to provide basic human needs to detainees at its San Francisco Field Office, including clean bedding, hygiene products, medical care, and legal information in their primary languages.
A federal judge has issued an order banning ICE from carrying out warrantless arrests in Colorado, ruling that the agency’s practices violate federal law, and the ruling provides immediate protections to people who may otherwise be subject to warrantless detention based on profiling or insufficient investigation.
The ACLU of Northern California successfully challenged a DHS subpoena seeking to unmask anonymous Instagram users who posted videos of ICE raids in Los Angeles, protecting the First Amendment rights of those documenting law enforcement activity in public.
A coalition of civil rights organizations has filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging the Missouri Department of Mental Health is illegally leaving people with serious mental illness to deteriorate in jail without court-ordered treatment.
The ACLU has filed a FOIA request to uncover how the DHS is attempting to suppress the First Amendment right to record their agents, and how widespread the retaliatory pattern is.
The US Border Patrol has built a nationwide dragnet driver-surveillance system that uses AI and mass surveillance to target innocent drivers, interrogate, search, and seize their property without proof of wrongdoing.
LeAnne Withdrow, a civilian employee of the Illinois National Guard, has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks intersex and transgender federal employees from using bathrooms aligned with their affirmed gender, arguing that it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The ACLU has filed a FOIA request to obtain records related to the Department of Homeland Security’s policies and practices regarding the filming of law enforcement activity, following reports of intimidation and violence against those documenting immigration enforcement in public spaces.
The ACLU of D.C. and Maryland criticized the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services for considering the reopening of the Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center, a condemned juvenile detention facility, arguing that it will worsen health and safety conditions for youth.
The ACLU released a report Wednesday outlining how wrongful convictions, especially of Black men, remain a predictable outcome of the nation’s death penalty system, due to racism, human error and systemic failures.
The ACLU of Northern California has filed a lawsuit against Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, accusing his office of withholding records that could reveal racial disparities in felony charging decisions, and is seeking to have the full set of records released.
Over 40 veterans, joined by the ACLU, Common Defense, and the Chamberlain Network, are urging Congress to take action against the Trump administration’s misuse of military powers and politicization of the military.
The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, accusing it of conducting unconstitutional surveillance through automated license plate readers without warrants or judicial oversight.