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

2026 marks the 65th anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union in the District of Columbia and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This year has been full of big ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a request from the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to allow prison officials to withhold gender-affirming ...

Jennifer Wedekind is the Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Jennifer has litigated a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues and has particular expertise in ...

WASHINGTON – A federal court ruled last week that the federal agencies responsible for parole and supervised release in Washington, D.C. violated federal disability law by systematically failing to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal court sided with Common Cause and voters in their lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), ruling the DOJ’s campaign to consolidate sensitive voter data ...

Kekai Watanabe was brutally attacked in a prison fight and his tailbone was broken. For months, prison staff at the federal prison in Hawai‘i where he was detained denied his requests for hospital ...

When the government obtains someone’s property, it must return those items when its interest in them expires, even if it initially took control of the items lawfully. This means that if the government ...

Once again, the Trump Administration is attempting to exert unconstitutional control over the content of expression—this time, by banning from the White House news organizations whose reporting has ...