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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the first installment of the ACLU's election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to immigrant families and America's immigration system.

The ACLU is leveraging our on-the-ground presence in every state, D.C., and Puerto Rico to defend and expand the right to vote. The legal team of Allen v. Milligan With the 2024 elections on the ...

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if ...

The ACLU Women's Rights Project has compiled a timeline of major Supreme Court decisions on women's rights.