States are the frontlines of our freedom — communities expect state and local officials to protect us from Trump’s assault on our rights. Donald Trump began to make good on his promises as soon as he ...

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

The public has a constitutional right to know what our own government is up to. But right now, federal agents are harassing and intimidating people legally recording them in public. Congress must pass the Right to Record Act.

The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.

The First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".

Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near Venezuela. Congress must conduct oversight and c...

Veterans reflect on their military service and the decade of integration of women into combat roles

Two foodborne illness outbreaks linked to Taylor Farms have exposed a weakness at the heart of North America's food system: the United States is increasingly relying on Mexico's ​produce industry, and...

The Department of Justice in June issued a legal opinion saying states aren't required to provide services that help people with disabilities remain in their homes.

Nine members of the Oath Keepers, who were not pardoned by President Trump but whose sentences were commuted, appealed their convictions on multiple charges, including for seditious conspiracy, relati...

A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten

An ACLU report looks at widespread use of force in immigration enforcement in the first year of President Trump's return to office. Recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine have renewed scrutiny on t...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday vowed to "dismantle" the International Criminal Court and urged other countries to join the effort as the Trump administration significantly escalates its campaign against the global institution.

This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The report examines immigration enforcement incidents in eight states – representing a cross-section of the country and reflecting varying degrees of federal law enforcement presence and personnel surges – and found that over 400 of the more than 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents examined involved misconduct by immigration agents. The report ends with detailed recommendations urging policymakers to call for transformative change to our immigration system, in recognition that it is broken and dangerous to human rights.

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back protections for at-risk animal and plant species under the Endangered Species Act. Under prior regulations, species that were considered “threatened” …

Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."

YouTube video by Rep. Al Green

The legislative proposal would allow the defense secretary to withhold "controlled unclassified information," potentially curbing public access to a wide range of defense records.

The administration’s pressure to increase arrests has put officers under “too much stress,” sources said, after two men who weren’t initial ICE targets were killed in less than a week.

The 84-page report, “‘You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead’: Abusive US Immigration Detention at Ft. Bliss,” documents conditions at the largest immigration detention facility in the United States...

Our $25 million campaign is a response to new threats to civil liberties at every level of the ballot. We will work to educate voters about critical candidate races and ballot measures across the coun...

The civil rights framework we built to enforce our founding document’s promise of liberty continues to fall short.