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The Government Denies People Access to Asylum Because of Language Barriers Apr. 22, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Every year, thousands of asylum seekers from diverse corners of the world seek refuge in the United ... Read More

The CIA's Long and Dangerous History of Refusing To Answer Absurdly Obvious Questions Apr. 15, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The CIA is so known for its unabashed secrecy that, when it joined Twitter in 2014, its first tweet ... Read More

Supreme Court Signals That Institutions Can Keep Designing Programs To Foster Diversity, After Affirmative Action Ruling Apr. 08, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Since the Supreme Court struck down longstanding affirmative action admissions policies this past su... Read More

Breaking the Mold: Gender Discrimination in the Airline Industry Apr. 01, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

As a child in New Jersey, I grew up hearing stories of my mother's flight attendant days in South Ko... Read More

Communities Should Reject Surveillance Products Whose Makers Won't Allow Them To Be Independently Evaluated Mar. 25, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

American communities are being confronted by a lot of new police technology these days, a lot of whi... Read More

Why Allowing Chaplains in Public Schools Harms Students Mar. 18, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

A 2023 Texas law allowing public schools to hire chaplains, or accept them as volunteers, to provide... Read More

Despair and Resignation Are Not a Strategy: How To Fight Back in a Second Trump Term Mar. 11, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Many polls suggest if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump could return to the Wh... Read More

President Biden's Order To Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service Mar. 04, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

At the onset of President Joe Biden's term, in January 2021, he issued an executive order to phase o... Read More

More than 20 Million People Are About To Lose Internet Access Feb. 26, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

For people across the country, reliable internet access allows them to engage with the world. Think ... Read More

Anti-DEI Efforts Are the Latest Attack on Racial Equity and Free Speech Feb. 19, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

First, Donald Trump and right-wing extremists attacked government trainings on racism and sexism. Th... Read More

Senate Rejects Deal Threatening Protections for Asylum Seekers Feb. 12, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Senate voted against a bill that would have been the first major overhaul of asylum and immigrat... Read More

Celebrating an Important Victory in the Ongoing Fight Against Reverse Warrants Feb. 05, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

For years, the ACLU and other privacy advocates have been challenging law enforcement's growing use ... Read More

The Importance of Defending the Free Speech Rights of Pro-Palestinian Students in Florida Jan. 29, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Like everyone else, college students have a First Amendment right to express their political opinion... Read More

Unaccountable Police Units Are Wrong for Safety Jan. 22, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Last week, the National Policing Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Justice office of ... Read More

Government Agencies Shouldn't Be Allowed To Destroy Their Paper Trail of Medical Abuse and Neglect Jan. 15, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Last year, Anadith Reyes Alvarez, a medically vulnerable 8-year-old girl, died in Customs and Border... Read More

The Supreme Court Must Allow U.S. Citizens To Challenge Placement on No-Fly List Jan. 08, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

In case after case, we've seen the government remove people from the no-fly list and prevent their l... Read More

Arizona's High Court Must Protect Abortion Access Dec. 18, 2023

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Arizona Supreme Court is currently considering whether to resurrect a more than 150-year-old cri... Read More

7 Wealthiest Counties Are All Suburbs of DC and San Francisco Dec. 13, 2023

Terence Jeffrey

If you want to drive through the seven wealthiest counties in the United States — when measure... Read More

New Point-and-Shoot Chemical Detectors Raise Privacy and Constitutional Issues Dec. 11, 2023

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The TSA has begun testing a new handheld device that purports to be able to quickly identify the sub... Read More

Lifting the Veil on the Design of Predictive Tools in the Criminal Legal System Dec. 04, 2023

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Recently, the National Institute of Justice — the research arm of the Department of Justice &#... Read More