Press Releases
May 08, 2023
United Nations Experts Urge Officials to Confront Institutional Racism After First U.S. Fact-Finding Visit Since Murder of George Floyd
NEW YORK — At the end of a 12-day-long fact-finding visit to the United States, two United Nations experts on racial justice concluded that authorities must adopt a human right...
Issue Areas:
Human Rights
May 04, 2023
ACLU Strongly Opposes Cascade of Dangerous Legislation Threatening to Destroy Digital Privacy
Billed as Making the Internet Safer, the EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and Cooper Davis Act, Would Instead Chill Free Speech and Increase Government Censorship and Surveillance
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
May 02, 2023
Families, Doctors Challenge Oklahoma’s Ban on Health Care for Trans Youth
OKLAHOMA CITY – Families, transgender adolescents, and their medical providers are challenging a new law criminalizing age-appropriate medical care for transgender adolescent...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Poe v. Drummond
May 02, 2023
ACLU Launches New State Supreme Court Initiative to Advance Rights at the State Level
NEW YORK — Today the American Civil Liberties Union is launching its new State Supreme Court Initiative to fight for the expansion of civil liberties and civil rights through sta...
Issue Areas:
Civil Liberties
May 02, 2023
ACLU Comment on Biden Administration Sending Troops to Southern Border
WASHINGTON — News broke today that the Biden administration plans to send 1,500 active-duty military troops to the United States’ southern border to perform “monitoring and a...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
May 01, 2023
Federal Court Orders Saucon Valley School District to Allow After School Satan Club to Meet in District Facilities
HELLERTOWN, Pa. — A federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today, ordering the Saucon Valley School District (SVSD) to allow the After School Satan Club (ASSC) to...
Issue Areas:
Religious Liberty
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