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On the 150th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment, we’re talking about a promise of equality that was bookended by violence. On the front end was the vicious enslavement of Black people; on the back-end was the Jim Crow era, a response that successfully and brutally reinforced racial segregation in opposition to the rights afforded Black people by the 14th Amendment. In both cases, violence was prote... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today announced his retirement from the nation’s highest court today. ACLU legal director David Cole issued this statement in response... Read More

A federal judge orders the reunification of thousands of parents and children separated by the Trump administration's zero tolerance immigration policy. Read More

The Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection passed SB 1186, a bill that would require public debate prior to local law enforcement acquiring new surveillance technology. Read More

Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s third Muslim ban. The ACLU will host a media call at noon. Read More

June is Pride month, a month to celebrate the strength and activism of LGBTQ people. We at the ACLU of California are excited to be working on three LGBTQ-related bills this year to make things better for students, youth in foster care, and people in jail or prison. Read More

President Trump's executive order has no plan to reunite over 2,300 children who have been take away from their parents. We will be monitoring the administration’s to see if family separations really stop. Read More

In response to reports that President Trump will issue an executive order on family separation, Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, offered the following reaction: Read More

“Voting is a fundamental right and California should be doing everything it can to make registration widely available to all of our state’s citizens,” said Raúl Macías, Voting Rights Project Manager and Attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reportedly planning to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council today.Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program, issued the following statement in response:“The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council, coupled with its abusive use of power at home, only confirm what we’ve always known... Read More