Press Releases
Aug 27, 2024
ACLU Commends New Directive Requiring Border Patrol to Safeguard and Return Migrants’ Personal Belongings
PHOENIX – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published a groundbreaking new directive to curb longstanding inconsistencies and abuses in Border Patrol’s handling of m...
Aug 26, 2024
New Report Exposes Rampant Abuse in Louisiana ICE Detention Facilities
Evidence gathered over two years reveals physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, deprivation of basic necessities, and lack of language access
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Aug 23, 2024
Ohio Judge Blocks Laws Mandating 24-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions for Violating Reproductive Freedom Amendment
COLUMBUS- Today, the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granted our request to temporarily block several Ohio laws that together forced abortion patients to wait a minimum of 24...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: Preterm-Cleveland, et al, v. Dave Yost, et al.
Aug 22, 2024
ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School
The courts must safeguard classroom discussions against political censorship
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Court case: Walls v. Sanders
Aug 21, 2024
Closing Arguments Conclude in Landmark Lawsuit that Could Affect More than 100 People on North Carolina’s Death Row
RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys delivered closing arguments today in North Carolina v. Hasson Bacote, a landmark case filed under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act that could affec...
Issue Areas:
Capital Punishment
Aug 21, 2024
Court Accepts Request to Review Appeal of Crystal Mason Acquittal
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has decided to reexamine the voting case of Fort Worth grandmother Crystal Mason that it had previously sent back to the Tex...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: Crystal Mason v. State of Texas
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