Press Releases
Jul 24, 2025
ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Order Targeting Disabled and Unhoused People
WASHINGTON – President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental health disabilities and subst...
Issue Areas:
Disability Rights
Criminal Law Reform
Jul 23, 2025
ACLU, Lawyers' Committee and Co-Counsel Dismiss First Amendment Claims Against University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma censorship law doesn’t apply to higher education, courts agree
Court case: Black Emergency Response Team v. O'Connor
Jul 23, 2025
Award Winning Fashion Designer Willy Chavarria Named ACLU Artist Ambassador for Immigrants’ Rights & LGBTQ Rights
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that award-winning fashion designer Willy Chavarria will join the organization’s Artist Ambassador Program to advo...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
LGBTQ Rights
Jul 23, 2025
ACLU Comment on Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan
Plan thwarts the will of Congress and endangers civil rights
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Jul 18, 2025
Court Agrees Trump Administration’s ICC Sanctions Likely Violate Advocates’ First Amendment Rights
The court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the administration from punishing two human rights advocates for speaking to the ICC
Issue Areas:
National Security
Free Speech
Court case: Smith v. Trump
Jul 17, 2025
Consent Decree Permanently Blocks Idaho Attorney General’s Ban on Out-of-State Abortion Referrals
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and the Ada and Valley County prosecutors have agreed to be bound by a consent decree permanently blocking them from prosecut...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom

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