Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do. Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal ...

“Whether it is simple ignorance or worse, outright disrespect for and harassment of Tribal citizens, ICE’s law enforcement ...

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that people who win early rulings in civil rights cases won't necessarily be able to recover ...

Advocates’ letter calls on House to reject bill that would cut funding to "sanctuary” jurisdictions, violating Constitutional ...

Iowa lawmakers voted Thursday to strike gender identity from state civil rights protections. The state's civil rights law ...

They stopped us because we look Latino or like farmworkers, because of the color of our skin,” said one plaintiff.

Washington — The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump's move to close down the American asylum system, saying it violates legal ...

The American Civil Liberties Union sued South Carolina this week, saying the privacy law is not fair because before it passed last year, governments released plenty of information on executions ...

"One of the false lessons of the Scopes trial," says historian Ronald Numbers, "was that the American Civil Liberties Union coming down with a very smart lawyer from Chicago, Clarence Darrow ...

Baldwin was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, a fledgling organization devoted to individual rights. "In 1925 the ACLU consisted of a handful of individuals who would meet ...

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