Targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, a major racial justice group, is Trump’s latest effort to punish groups for their ...

Tennessee plans to execute Mr. Carruthers tomorrow while sitting on untested DNA and fingerprint evidence that could exonerate him.

Hundreds of people across the country have faced retaliation for exercising their First Amendment right to record ICE and other federal agents deployed in their communities. Across the country, people ...

January 14, 2026 Dear Members of Congress, Masked federal agents are unleashing violence and chaos in our cities and neighborhoods. Agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a mother, wife ...

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if ...

Early Repeal of Sodomy Laws Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to get rid of its sodomy law. It did so in 1961, when it adopted an overall revision of its criminal laws. The revision closely ...

Aclu Calls On Biden Administration To Shut Down Ice Detention Facilities. Explore Press Release.

For decades, Black voters fought for equal access to the ballot. Today, that access is still under attack. The right to vote was by no means ensured to Black Americans throughout the country’s history ...

The ACLU’s research brief, “The Impacts of Anti-Transgender Laws and Policies: Evidence from Empirical Research,” reviews existing research on the impacts of laws and policies designed to restrict the ...

The ACLU Women's Rights Project has compiled a timeline of major Supreme Court decisions on women's rights.

The 2024 Trump campaign’s “anti-white racism” rhetoric threatens to unravel decades of progress on racial equality and civil rights. The ACLU outlines our plan to fight back. This piece was published ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ ...