Sep 13, 2013 · The ACLU has filed three motions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) asking it to release secret opinions authorizing the surveillance of Americans. The public has a right to see the legal decisions addressing novel surveillance programs that affect our privacy and free speech rights — but many of the FISC’s opinions ...

The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

On November 18, 2022, the ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts, with the law firms of Thompson & Thompson, P.C. and Elkins, Auer, Rudof & Schiff, filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the question whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person’s home is a Fourth Amendment search.

Apr 8, 2024 · ACLU Brief Urges Supreme Court to Reject Trump Immunity Claims Support our on-going litigation and work in the courts Donate now Learn More About the Issues in This Case

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Sep 13, 2023 · The ACLU’s amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to reject the Fifth Circuit’s reasoning, but to do so on significantly narrower grounds than those advanced by the United States, which maintains that Second Amendment rights …

May 7, 2021 · The ACLU and the ACLU of Florida, joined by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and the R Street Institute, filed a cross-ideological amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to afford individuals the opportunity for resentencing that Congress sought to give them in the First Step Act.

Feb 27, 2023 · Texas and other states are challenging ICE’s enforcement priorities, which direct agents to focus their arrests and deportations on immigrants with particular immigration law violations, such as those with criminal convictions.

People fleeing persecution and violence have the legal and human right to seek asylum in the United States. Our nation is made stronger when we welcome people with compassion and dignity. Together, we can end the horrors of immigration detention and rebuild a …