It’s official: The United States’ 47th president-elect is Donald Trump. This is Trump’s second presidential victory and his ...

During the first Donald Trump administration, the ACLU fought his unlawful policies more than 400 times. We’re even more ...

Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), had the following reaction to The ...

For decades, the ACLU has worked in the courts and in Congress to end the combat exclusion policies that prevent women from serving alongside their fellow servicemen in combat arms units. In the 1970s ...

Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to significant lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of war. It banned photographers ...

On Election Night, standard procedure and state-based policies mean elections officials may still be counting ballots after ...

We spoke to ACLU affiliates in Arizona and Missouri about how their state’s ballot measures can restore full abortion access in a moment when this vital care lacks federal-level protections.

The ACLU has evolved over the years. What began as a small group of idealists taking a stand againt the government in 1920 has grown into the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U ...

Statement from Rita Bettis Austen, ACLU of Iowa Legal Director: "We are obviously disappointed with the court’s decision not to outright block Secretary Pate's directive, which we still fear threatens ...

Over the past 50 years, our schools have become sites of increased criminalization of young people—a disturbing fact that is even truer for poor Black and Latino communities. Today, police officers ...

The 2014-2015 Ebola crisis was the largest and most serious such outbreak in history, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and over 11,000 deaths, the overwhelming majority in West Africa.

Equality and religious freedom are our bedrock values. They are enshrined in our Constitution and are not mere formalities to be discarded in difficult times. Yet recently, we have seen a politics of ...