PROVIDENCE, RI — In an important victory for First Amendment rights, a federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled in favor of four arts organizations in their challenge to the National Endowment for the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Four arts and theater organizations filed an amended complaint today in their First Amendment lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), accompanied by discovery ...

Targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, a major racial justice group, is Trump’s latest effort to punish groups for their ...

Tennessee plans to execute Mr. Carruthers tomorrow while sitting on untested DNA and fingerprint evidence that could exonerate him.

Hundreds of people across the country have faced retaliation for exercising their First Amendment right to record ICE and other federal agents deployed in their communities. Across the country, people ...

On April 11, 2025, the ACLU and ACLU of Maine filed a lawsuit on behalf of two human rights advocates who, because of an executive order signed by President Trump, have been forced to stop ...

Whether Alabama’s congressional districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters. We succeeded in winning a new map for 2024 elections which, for the ...

This case challenged Louisiana's attempt to suspend congressional primary elections after voting had already begin and tens of thousands of voters had already cast ballots. Plaintiffs argued that ...

Early Repeal of Sodomy Laws Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to get rid of its sodomy law. It did so in 1961, when it adopted an overall revision of its criminal laws. The revision closely ...

NEW ORLEANS — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Louisiana are raising urgent concerns following an investigation that shows the New Orleans Police Department has secretly used real-time ...

On August 31, 2016, a coalition of 17 organizations issued the following statement about predictive policing tools used by law enforcement in the United States, pointing to the technology’s racial ...

CHICAGO – Under a legal settlement filed in court today, Clearview AI — a secretive face surveillance company claiming to have captured more than 10 billion faceprints from peoples’ online photos ...