Press Releases
Jun 27, 2024
ACLU Responds to President Biden’s Announcement Pardoning LGBTQ Service Members
WASHINGTON – President Biden announced this week that he will pardon LGBTQ former service members convicted under now-repealed military laws prohibiting consensual sex. This deci...
Jun 27, 2024
New Report: United States a Global Outlier in Denying Voting Rights Due to Criminal Convictions
WASHINGTON — The Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, and the American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, “Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Globa...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Jun 26, 2024
ACLU Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Decision in Emergency Abortion Case
WASHINGTON – In response to the leaked opinion in Moyle v. United States, Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, released the following st...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States
Jun 25, 2024
ACLU of Texas and ACLU Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Defend First Amendment Right to Protest
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the ACLU are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state criminal court convictions of three North Texas comm...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Court case: Henderson v. State of Texas
Jun 25, 2024
ACLU Launches First-of-its-Kind Infographics with New Voter Opinion Research
Data Upends Conventional Political Wisdom on Immigration and Public Safety
Jun 25, 2024
Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Nation’s First Religious Public Charter School
OKLAHOMA CITY — Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, Education Law Center, and Freedom From Religion Foundation applaud the Ok...
Issue Areas:
Religious Liberty
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