Press Releases
about National Security
Aug 17, 2025
ACLU Statement on Escalating Federal Takeover of D.C.
Civil Liberties Org Sounds Alarm as Trump Administration Deploys More National Guard Troops to Scare D.C. Communities
Issue Areas:
National Security
Criminal Law Reform
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
Jun 18, 2025
ACLU Reminds President Trump That Only Congress Can Decide Whether to Use Force Against Iran
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union tonight sent a letter to President Trump making clear that only Congress can authorize the use of military force against Iran. The...
Issue Areas:
National Security
Jun 09, 2025
ACLU Slams Trump Administration Deployment of Active Duty Troops to Los Angeles
WASHINGTON — Today, President Trump ordered hundreds of active-duty marines to support the administration’s crack down on immigrants’ rights protestors in Los Angeles, who to...
May 19, 2025
ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana Sound Alarm on New Orleans Police Department’s Secret Use of Real-Time Facial Recognition
Network of face recognition surveillance cameras distinguishes New Orleans as the worst abuser of this technology in the nation
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
National Security
May 13, 2025
ACLU Urges House Committee to Remove Dangerous Anti-Dissent Provision from Tax Bill
WASHINGTON — In an apparent effort to aid President Trump’s discriminatory clamp down on free speech, Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee have snuck a dangerous...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
National Security
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News & CommentaryAug 2025
National Security
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Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance. Explore News & Commentary.Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance
Build it (an authoritarian tracking infrastructure) and they (expanded uses) will come -
News & CommentaryAug 2025
National Security
Surveillance Company Flock Now Using Ai To Report Us To Police If It Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “suspicious”. Explore News & Commentary.Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions -
Court CaseJan 2025
National Security
Doj Opinions On Domestic Military Deployment Foia. Explore Case.DOJ Opinions on Domestic Military Deployment FOIA
For decades, the Department of Justice has been responsible for advising the President on the use of the military within the United States. By filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act, the ACLU obtained over a dozen DOJ opinions on the domestic use of the military, none which had previously been released to the public. -
News & CommentaryApr 2025
National Security
Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All. Explore News & Commentary.Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All
President Donald Trump's use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided.