BREAKING: We’re representing the NRA at the Supreme Court in their case against New York’s Department of Financial Services for abusing its regulatory power to violate the NRA’s First Amendment rights.

The government can’t blacklist an advocacy group because of its viewpoint. We don’t support the NRA's mission or its viewpoints on gun rights, and we don’t agree with their goals, strategies, or tactics.

But we both know that government officials can't punish organizations because they disapprove of their views. nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/…

BREAKING: We're suing Tennessee for their “aggravated prostitution” statute that targets people with HIV with harsh punishment and lifetime sex offender registration.

This law is unconstitutional and disproportionately affects Black and transgender women. The law elevates engaging in sex work from a misdemeanor to a felony based on someone's HIV status – a protected disability.

Three years ago today, the murder of George Floyd in broad daylight by a Minneapolis police officer sparked the largest protests against police brutality in U.S. history.

George Floyd should still be alive. George Floyd's murder demonstrated what we've known for too long: The policing institutions in our country are deeply entrenched in racism and violence.

We cannot allow it to continue.

BREAKING: We’re asking a federal court to block two provisions of an anti-voter law in Georgia that make it harder for people with disabilities to vote. As it is now, the law makes it a felony for friends, neighbors, or staff who work in shelters or nursing homes to help people receive or return an absentee ballot, even if the person has a disability.

This term, the Supreme Court is evaluating the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act in Brackeen v. Haaland.

If IWCA is overturned, the future of Indigenous tribes is at risk.
aclu.org/news/racial-ju… ICWA was passed in 1978 to protect Indigenous children from being removed from their families and communities, at a time when around 90% of Indigenous children were taken and raised outside of their tribes.

Today, North Carolina, Nebraska, and South Carolina legislators are moving to advance state abortion bans that would restrict our access to life-saving care.

We're showing up to speak out against them. ⬇️ 19thnews.org/2023/05/aborti… Nebraska lawmakers are pushing a bill that would ban abortion past 12 weeks AND gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Politicians shouldn’t be getting between us and our health care — and we’re reminding them of that.

https://twitter.com/ACLUofNE/status/1658471882977599489?s=20

For decades, communities of color and civil rights advocates have called on the government to close the loopholes federal agents use to unconstitutionally profile us.

Now, the Biden administration has a chance to make that happen.
justsecurity.org/86577/doj-and-… Currently, DOJ and DHS have anti-discrimination policies that actually allow federal agents to profile us based on constitutionally-protected traits in certain contexts.

These traits can include race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or ethnicity.

BREAKING: We just filed a proposed amicus brief supporting Afroman, who is being sued by police officers for using footage of a botched raid of his home in two of his music videos.

Afroman has a First Amendment right to use this footage to criticize the officers. Along with @acluohio, we're asking the court to dismiss this case – and we know why.

It's without merit and was designed to intimidate @ogafroman into silence, and get the court to order him to stop criticizing the police.

In 2017, Georgia vastly expanded its definition of "domestic terrorism" and included certain property crimes committed with the intent to "alter, change, or coerce the policy of the government."

This law is now being weaponized to punish protesters.
aclu.org/news/free-spee… For months, activists have been camping out, staging marches, and hosting community events to try and stop the construction of a $90 million police training facility in the Weelaunee Forest.

BREAKING: The Florida senate just passed a ban on abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they are pregnant. Governor Ron DeSantis and other anti-abortion extremists are forcing this bill through the Florida legislature, ignoring that Floridians are opposed to banning abortion.

US policies played an unmistakable role in the death of at least 38 people in the Ciudad Juárez immigrant detention center fire. They were among thousands forced to wait in Mexico for a chance to request protection under US laws.

@POTUS’s new asylum ban would entrench this harm. Our government uses policies like Title 42 to keep people from seeking asylum — returning them to danger they fled or stranding them in unfamiliar cities in Mexico, where they face further harm.

No one should face criminal prosecution for accessing or providing abortion.

That's why we're launching our Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative. Criminalizing abortion care is yet another way our criminal legal system is wielded to control the bodies and futures of people who can become pregnant.

Those most impacted are disproportionately Black, Brown, and economically marginalized people.

🗓️ On this day in 1969, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines and affirmed students' free speech rights. So how'd the case come about?

In 1965, a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War.

The school board found out, and passed a preemptive ban. When the students got to school, they were asked to remove their armbands and suspended.

The West Virginia Senate Education Committee just approved a bill that would allow public schools to teach intelligent design, a form of creationism.

This bill is blatantly unconstitutional. By allowing instruction on intelligent design, the bill would enable public school teachers to impose their religious views on students.

It’s a huge violation of the separation of church and state.

Last week, we filed a brief in US v. Hansen urging the Supreme Court to hold that a federal law which makes it a felony to encourage noncitizens to enter or reside in the US unlawfully violates our First Amendment rights. The Court has long recognized the First Amendment protects us from criminal punishment for simply encouraging an unlawful act as long as we aren't imminently stirring up crime.

However, this law is so broad that routine conversations would break it.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just refused to hear Wikimedia v. NSA, our longstanding challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance of Americans’ online communications with friends, family, and others abroad.

This decision comes at an immense cost to our privacy. We all deserve to use the internet without fear of being monitored by the government.

By declining to hear our and @knightcolumbia’s case, the Court has slammed shut one of the only doors left to hold the NSA accountable for surveillance abuses revealed in 2013 by @Snowden.

During tonight’s State of the Union, President Biden spoke about his administration’s commitment to defending our democracy, protecting abortion rights and transgender rights, and more.

We’re ready for the work ahead — and there’s a lot of work to do. ⬇️ ABORTION RIGHTS

This administration made clear they understand the urgency of protecting our right to bodily autonomy.

The time to pass federal protections for abortion and reproductive health care is NOW.

For years, states with the death penalty have resisted recordings and photographs that expose what happens during executions.

Recently uncovered tapes from Virginia demonstrate what we've long known:

There is no such thing as a humane execution. npr.org/2023/01/19/114… States that carry out the death penalty often do it in secret — and without proper oversight over execution methods.

In the recordings, confused prison workers gloss over complications. When someone in the electric chair starts bleeding heavily, no one on staff mentions it.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the decision of Roe v. Wade.

Nearly 7 months ago, the Supreme Court turned its back on our legal right to abortion.

We didn’t give up 50 years ago — and we aren’t giving up today. Since Roe was decided, anti-abortion politicians have relentlessly passed laws pushing abortion out of reach.

In 50 years, states have passed thousands of barriers to abortion care, all with the same end goal in mind:

Forcing people to carry pregnancies against their will.

BREAKING: We just filed an amicus brief in Google v. Gonzalez, urging the Supreme Court to protect our right to speak freely on online platforms.

Online speech is an essential public good — and overbroad content moderation disproportionately harms disadvantaged communities. The court must decide whether Google’s YouTube is partially responsible for a 2015 ISIS attack that killed a US citizen because the platform mistakenly suggested its users view content posted by ISIS operatives.

BREAKING: We just released hundreds of documents showing how Arizona created a nationwide surveillance program to track Americans’ personal money transfers.

It's one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent history. Last year Senator Wyden revealed the Arizona attorney general’s office was working with the Department of Homeland Security to collect records of millions of money transfers sent to or from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico.