ICE has unlawfully failed to return people’s property, leading to job loss, significant financial costs, and risk of ...

The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a request from the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow prison officials to withhold gender-affirming health care from ...

Image Alt Text: A dark green graphic with white text that reads: “Tell the D.C. Council: Make federal agents accountable.” Above the text is a collage of a navy blue and white dual-tone image of a ...

In the first 10 days of the second Trump administration, Chicago was “ground zero” for a massive ICE operation that arrested hundreds of people. They were dubbed “the worst of the worst” by ICE, but ...

How the ACLU Won the Largest Mass Acquittal in American History In May 1971, the Nixon administration cracked down unconstitutionally on a massive anti-Vietnam War protest with the largest mass ...

Donald Trump sure has a problem with being criticized. That’s not breaking news. And he’s not the first president to have his feathers ruffled by public pushback to his policies or behavior. However ...

As everyone who lives in, works in, or visits D.C. knows, the District has long been a critical venue where people express their political views. The great majority of demonstrators in D.C. do not ...

The Alien Enemies Act, passed in 1798 when the still-new Republic feared foreign invasion, is a wartime authority providing that the President may—after a public proclamation—apprehend and remove ...

WASHINGTON – Late last night a federal district court in the District of Columbia issued a ruling that the National Park Service cannot interfere with an ongoing protest critical of Donald Trump. The ...

On September 25, 2025, four Washington, D.C. community members and the national immigration organization CASA sued the Trump administration to end its policy and practice of making immigration arrests ...

WASHINGTON – Today, an ACLU and ACLU of the District of Columbia analysis of 2022-2023 stop-and-frisk data collected by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) revealed that Black people compose ...

In Star Wars, the Imperial March is the music that plays when Darth Vader and his storm troopers enter the scene. It’s also the soundtrack of Sam O’Hara’s protest against the National Guard’s presence ...