Press Releases
Mar 20, 2023
ACLU Condemns Missouri AG’s Proposed Emergency Rule Attempting to Limit Gender-Affirming Care
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In response to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Baily’s proposed emergency rule restricting access to gender-affirming care, the American Civil Liberties ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Mar 20, 2023
ACLU Warns Classical Charter Schools that Short Hair Rule for Boys Discriminates Against Native American Students
LELAND, N.C. — According to a warning letter issued by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of North Carolina, officials at Classical Charter Schools of Leland appeare...
Mar 20, 2023
Supreme Court Must Reject West Virginia’s Effort to Deny a 12-Year-Old Girl Her Right to Play
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal urged the United States Supreme Court to reject an effort by West Virginia’s ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education
Mar 17, 2023
ACLU Applauds Reinstatement of HUD Rule Strengthening Protection from Housing Discrimination
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union applauded a final rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development reinstating longstanding standards for challenging hou...
Issue Areas:
Women's Rights
Racial Justice
Mar 16, 2023
Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Rally in D.C., Demand the Biden Administration Not Ban Asylum or Lock Up Families
WASHINGTON — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International USA, Fair Immigration Reform Movement, RAICES, Community Change, Immigration Hub, Detention Watch Ne...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Mar 16, 2023
Florida's "Stop W.O.K.E." Censorship Bill Continues to Be Blocked After Eleventh Circuit Decision
The victory supports challenges to discriminatory classroom censorship efforts nationwide.
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Court case: Pernell v. Lamb
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