News & Commentary

The ACLU is challenging a Tennessee law that criminalizes HIV status. This law unfairly prevents people from securing employment and housing.

Across the country, efforts to install chaplains in public schools threaten to undermine students’ religious freedom rights and their well-being. Here’s what you need to know.

Businesses offering expressive services do not have a First Amendment right to refuse to serve customers based on their identity. The SCOTUS decision merely recognizes a business’s right to choose not to sell certain products to anyone.

Consumer privacy laws should strengthen free speech protections online, and vice versa. Here’s how it can be done.

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.