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The ACLU has the battle-tested playbook to defend civil rights and liberties. Should we face a second Trump administration, we’re ready.

Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.

Three years after President Biden ordered federal agencies to end prison profiteering, the Marshals Service continues to sidestep the ban.

Today, Oregon’s lawmakers knowingly took us backwards. By passing HB 4002 which recriminalizes drug addiction, they chose to send our most vulnerable neighbors to jail instead of treatment.

For over 50 years, the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project has been at the forefront of the fight for gender justice.

Jackie Yerby's written and personal testimony in support of SB 1583A — Freedom to Read, February 15, 2024

A former Oregon teacher's personal and written testimony in support of SB 1583, submitted to the Senate Committee on Education on February 15, 2024.

As two lawsuits challenge affirmative action policies in military academies, Black women veterans reflect on the need for more leaders of color.

Automatic license plate readers collect and store highly sensitive information that can reveal where we work, live, worship, or seek reproductive health services. Sharing any ALPR information with out-of-state or federal law enforcement agencies has been forbidden in California since 2016.