Press Releases | American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 29, 2022

ACLU Comment on Biden Administration Proposed Partial Repeal of Rule Allowing Refusals in Health Care

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to partially repeal a dangerous and unnecessary Trump-era rule that would have allowed health c...

Issue Areas: Religious Liberty Reproductive Freedom

Oct 03, 2022

ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana Warn East Baton Rouge Schools About Multiple Civil Rights Violations During ‘Day of Hope’ Event

CONTACT:Gillian Branstetter, American Civil Liberties Union, gbranstetter@aclu.org BATON ROUGE, La. — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana expressed alarm...

Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights Religious Liberty Women's Rights

Jun 21, 2022

ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Decision in Carson v. Makin

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court issued a ruling today in Carson v. Makin that requires the state of Maine to fund religious education at private religious schools as part of its t...

Issue Areas: Religious Liberty

Court case: Carson v. Makin

Mar 24, 2022

Muslim Americans Sue Border and Immigration Officials Over Illegal Religious Questioning

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Minnesota, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a federal lawsuit today in the United States Distric...

Issue Areas: National Security Religious Liberty

Court case: Kariye v. Mayorkas

Jan 04, 2022

Federal Court Enters Consent Decree Ordering City of Horn Lake to Approve Plans for Local Mosque in Federal Anti-Muslim Bias Litigation

HORN LAKE, Miss. — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Mississippi, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP have secured a consent decree that favorably resolve...

Issue Areas: Religious Liberty

Court case: ABRAHAM HOUSE OF GOD V. CITY OF HORN LAKE

Nov 09, 2021

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Grant Final Religious Requests of Individual on Death Row

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning in Ramirez v. Collier, a case that will decide whether John H. Ramirez will be able to exercise his religious...

Issue Areas: Religious Liberty

Court case: Ramirez v. Collier

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