Scott Pruitt was just confirmed as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The confirmation comes despite calls to delay the vote until public records from his time as Oklahoma attorney general could be reviewed.
The documents include communications with Koch Industries and other coal, oil and gas corporations. Whether Pruitt is head of the EPA or Oklahoma attorney general, the American people have the right to review these documents so they can hold him accountable. The ACLU and its partners will continue to prosecute the public records case.
The ACLU's Disability Rights work strives for an America free of discrimination against people with disabilities, where people with disabilities are valued, integrated members of society who have full access to education, homes, healthcare, jobs, and families. We are also committed to ensuring people with disabilities are no longer segregated into, and over-represented in, civil and criminal institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, jails and prisons.
President Trump today signed executive orders directing the federal government to fund construction of a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico and to freeze funding to sanctuary cities. ...
We’re demanding access to key documents concerning Trump’s conflicts of interest. The public has a right to know about Trump’s actual or potential conflic...
Going to protest in Washington, D.C. next week? Know your rights information brought to you by Law for Black Lives-DC, Black Lives Matter-DC and other partners including the ACLU: https://www.aclud...
Thirty years ago, the Senate denied Jeff Sessions a federal judgeship because of alleged racist remarks he made. Now, he will face the Senate Judiciary Committee to attempt to be attorney general. ...
Much of the privacy protection we need in today’s world can’t happen without technological and legislative solutions, and the ACLU will continue leading the fight for digital security and privacy t...
As President-elect Trump assumes the nation’s highest office, we urge him to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises made. These include a plan to amass a deportation force to rem...
Gavin Grimm’s school board is taking him to the Supreme Court because they don’t believe that transgender students have a right to use the restroom consistent with their gender identity.
The Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race. The Program is committed to upholding racial equality and combating racism in all forms through litigation, community organizing and training, legislative initiatives, and public education to address the broad spectrum of issues that disproportionately and negatively impact people of color.
Across the country, in the face of mounting budget deficits, states are more aggressively going after poor people who have already served their criminal sentences and jailing them for failing to pa...
Join us Thursday, May 15th from noon-2 p.m. Eastern Time for the ACLU event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the historical case Brown v. Board of Educ...
Four Native American elders in Winner, South Dakota tell the story of their grandkids going to jail for offenses like sleeping in class or pushing another child. Going to School In The Heartland, F...
Rubbie McCoy is a single mother of four living in Detroit. She's always wanted to be a homeowner and bought her home to provide a stable and safe place for her children to grow up. But Rubbie wound...
The ACLU, along with the National Consumer Law Center and the law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Manhattan to hold Morgan Stanley acc...
For more than a decade the ACLU has been leading efforts to combat racial profiling. Our report "Driving While Black: Racial Profiling on Our Nation's Highways" helped popularize a phrase that is n...