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The ACLU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated org, the ACLU Foundation.
50 states, DC, & Puerto Ricoaclu.orgBorn January 20, 1920Joined February 2008

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BREAKING: A judge just ruled that every Tennessee voter can now vote by mail for the 2020 elections.
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VICTORY: The Supreme Court ruled that DACA recipients can continue to live and work in the United States without the daily fear of deportation.
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BREAKING: We just blocked Alabama's abortion ban. With this federal court ruling, it's official: None of the state abortion bans passed earlier this year are in effect. Abortion remains legal in all 50 states.
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BREAKING: We just blocked Georgia's abortion ban. Abortion is still legal in all 50 states. We won't stop fighting until all efforts to block access are defeated.
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BREAKING: We are calling for the immediate resignation of Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis and Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.
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BREAKING: We're suing Georgia over its illegal voter suppression law.
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BREAKING: A federal court just issued a restraining order on the federal agents in Portland, Oregon. We said we would deploy the full firepower of the ACLU in this fight to save our democracy — and we meant it.
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BREAKING: Derek Chauvin has been convicted of the murder of George Floyd. For the first time in Minnesota state history, a white police officer has been held accountable for killing a Black man.
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BREAKING: Portland, Oregon just banned police from using tear gas on protesters.
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BREAKING: We’re calling for the dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security.
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SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT.
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BREAKING: President Trump is the third president in our nation's history to be impeached.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just denied the administration’s attempt to force local law enforcement to do ICE’s bidding. This is a win for all communities, particularly communities of color, and keeps us all safer.
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BREAKING: Microsoft just announced it will not sell face recognition technology to the police.
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BREAKING: We just won due process rights back for asylum seekers. A federal court just ruled the Trump administration cannot arbitrarily detain people exercising their legal right to seek asylum without a hearing.
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The Supreme Court ruled back in 1943 that students don’t have to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Still the law.
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A high school student suspended for not standing during pledge of allegiance has sued the principal bzfd.it/2y6DIpj
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BREAKING: We’re suing President Trump over today’s blatantly illegal declaration of a national emergency. There is no emergency. This is an unconstitutional power grab that hurts American communities. We’ll see him in court.
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BREAKING: We just won our lawsuit blocking Trump from abusing emergency powers to begin construction on a border wall Congress denied him.
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🗣 USPS is the only mail carrier in which our privacy is constitutionally guaranteed.
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BREAKING: Illinois just passed a law that recognizes all reproductive health care, including abortion, as a fundamental right. Abortion rights are under attack like never before. Thank you to the Illinois legislature for boldly leading the way in protecting access to abortion.
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Any president, mayor, or police chief who attacks protesters should understand that you will be sued, like we sued in DC, Seattle, and Minneapolis. You WILL be held accountable.
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The president is threatening violence against people who protest him
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BREAKING: 54 African countries are calling for an urgent meeting by the UN Human Rights Council into police brutality and violence against peaceful protest.
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BREAKING: The Department of Labor just proposed a rule that aims to let government contractors fire workers who are LGBTQ, or who are pregnant and unmarried, based on the employers’ religious views. This is taxpayer-funded discrimination in the name of religion. Period.
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BREAKING: Alabama's legislature just passed a law that criminalizes doctors and makes abortion illegal. Abortion is NOT a crime — it's a constitutional right. We will sue to stop this law from ever taking effect.
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BREAKING: Today the ACLU's board of directors unanimously voted to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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BREAKING: We’re suing on behalf of protesters who were abducted, beaten, and gassed by federal agents during Black Lives Matter protests in Portland.
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BREAKING: The is taking federal authorities in Portland, Oregon, to court. This is a fight to save our democracy. These federal agents must be stopped and removed from the city.
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MUST WATCH: Brandon Boulware, the father of a transgender daughter, testifies during a hearing asking Missouri lawmakers to stop discriminating against trans youth.
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court just ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal. This ruling, which confirms what we have always known, is a victory for our privacy rights.
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ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. ABORTION IS A RIGHT.
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Should President-elect Donald Trump attempt to implement his unconstitutional campaign promises, we'll see him in court.
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BREAKING: Boston just became the largest city on the East Coast to ban face surveillance.
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BREAKING: We are joining a lawsuit to stop the Trump campaign from trying to illegally throw out votes in Pennsylvania.   Every vote counts. Voters decide the winner.   We’ll see him in court.
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BREAKING: The FCC just voted to dismantle #netneutrality. This represents a radical departure that risks erosion of the biggest free speech platform the world has ever known.
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BREAKING: Arkansas has become the first state to ban health care for trans youth.
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VICTORY: We sued and won! Every Puerto Rico resident over 60 can vote early or by mail this election.
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BREAKING: We filed a national class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration for forcibly separating parents and young children
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This is an attack on an innocent man who was killed by a cop for simply existing in his own home. PERIOD. Botham Jean should still be alive and Black. Lives. Matter.
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DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting bit.ly/2D2fd0u
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The US Postal Service is NOT a business. You don’t see this administration demanding the military pay its own bills or face bankruptcy.
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BREAKING: Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information.
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Reminder: You ended DACA.
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Democrats are doing nothing for DACA - just interested in politics. DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start “falling in love” with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS.
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BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration to block new rules allowing employers to deny insurance coverage for birth control.
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Breonna Taylor should still be alive today. Her life mattered. Her future mattered. Black lives MATTER.
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It’s called the First Amendment.
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
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BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr tonight directed immigration judges to deny bond hearings to asylum seekers. Our Constitution does not allow the government to lock up asylum seekers without basic due process. We'll see the administration in court. Again.
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WATCH: ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero coming out of the court where the ACLU just argued and won block of Trump's Muslim ban.
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BREAKING: Tonight the Trump administration filed documents that don’t dispute the recent report that there may have been thousands more separated kids. They’re arguing it would take too long to figure out where those kids are because they have no tracking system.
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FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER
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It should not be this hard to vote. Remember that if you're in line before polls close, you have a right to stay in line until you can cast your ballot.
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Jefferson County, KY has one polling location. The traffic congestion around the polling site led to hundreds stuck in traffic. Voters are banging on the doors to be able to vote.
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🗣️ REMINDER: Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Non-binary people are who they say they are.
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No law requires this — separating parents and children is your administration’s choice. Hundreds of kids as young as 18 months are in danger of suffering lifelong trauma. We won’t let you shift the blame or use families as bargaining chips for your wall. #EndFamilySeparation
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Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.
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BREAKING: Aimee Stephens, Don Zarda, and Gerald Bostock won! The Supreme Court ruled that it was against the law to fire our clients for being LGBTQ. There is no question: LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination in the workplace.
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BREAKING: Wisconsin denied two state employees health insurance coverage because they are transgender. Yesterday, a jury awarded our clients $780,000. Discrimination comes with a cost, and for the state of Wisconsin the bill has come.
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That’s not how any of this works.
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We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents...
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court ruled in our case that President Trump’s attempt to transfer billions of dollars in military pay and pension funds for border wall construction is unlawful.
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We want trans students across the country and their parents to know the law is on your side and we at the ACLU won't stop fighting for you.
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BREAKING: Tennessee just passed a ban on abortion. We're suing with the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood. Abortion is a right. If states didn't learn their lesson last year when we blocked seven bans, we will remind them again in court.
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🗣️REMINDER: Journalists should never be arrested or targeted for doing their jobs.
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BREAKING: Kentucky just passed a ban on abortion based on the reason a person might need one. The only person who decides whether you need an abortion should be you. We are suing immediately.
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BREAKING: A federal court just ruled that the Trump administration CANNOT withhold federal funds to try to force local law enforcement to do ICE's bidding.
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BREAKING: Portland, Oregon, just banned government and corporate use of face surveillance technology.
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Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping — what is happening now in Portland should concern everyone in the US. These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting confirms tweets today that federal officers in camouflage but no agency identification or badges, driving unmarked non-government rental cars, are grabbing protestors off streets in Portland and not talking w local authorities opb.org/news/article/f
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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to demand a warrant before opening the door for cops
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BREAKING: Judge blocks Georgia elections officials from rejecting ballots over suspected signature mismatches without due process. This is an important victory in our case with .
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Trans and non-binary people belong in workplaces. Trans and non-binary people belong in schools. Trans and non-binary people belong in sports. Trans and non-binary people belong in restrooms. Trans and non-binary people belong EVERYWHERE. #RiseUpOct8
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BREAKING: The Trump administration just agreed to rescind its harmful policy that would've barred international students who attend universities or colleges that are fully online this upcoming semester. This is what victory looks like. Keep speaking out. Keep fighting back.
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🗣 Brett Kavanaugh is not entitled to a seat on the Supreme Court.
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"... I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world." - Jackie Robinson, 1972
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UPDATE: We just filed our lawsuit to challenge Ohio's abortion ban and stop it from ever going into effect.
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BREAKING: Gov. DeWine just signed the Ohio law that virtually bans all abortion care. We'll see you in court.
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BREAKING: Members of Congress just introduced a bill to stop law enforcement use of face recognition technology.
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Americans don't need to apologize-not even to presidents or vice presidents-for the lawful & proper exercise of their constitutional rights.
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The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
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BREAKING: We're suing and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for inhumanely detaining immigrants in federal prisons. They’ve created a human rights crisis by denying adequate medical care and food, and violating their rights to religious freedom.
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BREAKING: The court rules that Kansas' documentary proof-of-citizenship law, which disenfranchised thousands of eligible voters, violates the National Voter Registration Act. It has been struck down permanently. #ACLUvKobach
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Military rules and regulations allow trans people to serve their country. Even the commander-in-chief cannot change those via Twitter.
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White House correspondents represent the public. Their job is to ask hard questions, not to be polite company. It is unacceptable for the president to expel a reporter, Jim Acosta, for doing his job aggressively. The White House should reverse this decision immediately.
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Lawyers are stationed at airports across U.S. If you know someone entering country, tell them not to sign anything before talking to lawyer
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BREAKING: Rosa Maria is finally free. We are thrilled that she can now recover, surrounded by her family’s love and support.
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In the United States, the government can’t arrest you without probable cause.
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BREAKING: We’re suing DHS, CBP, and ICE for records about their secret purchase and use of our cell phone location data to track us.
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BREAKING: Jeff Sessions confirmed as attorney general. If he violates the Constitution, we'll sue.
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