News & Commentary

With democracy under attack, the balance of power in Congress up for grabs, and the Trump administration determined to make it harder to vote, the midterm election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential—and contentious—in recent history.

The Trump administration's mass deportation campaign is in service of an authoritarian and white supremacist vision. The ACLU is fighting back.

ACLU NorCal is calling on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reverse its decision banning Dorsey Nunn’s memoir, “What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly” from state prisons. Nunn, who spent a decade in San Quentin as a young adult, is a longtime community organizer and advocate for rehabilitation and reentry.

In times when language itself is under attack, art becomes both an archive and an act of resistance.

We're supporting an effort to ensure that all Californians, regardless of their financial status, have a transcript of their civil case proceedings — without which they have no real chance of mounting a successful appeal.

Individuals unlawfully re-detained in Northern and Central California may request release by filing a habeas petition in federal court.

Know your rights and stay safe in case of a federal law enforcement surge at and around the Super Bowl in Santa Clara.

The first year of the second Trump administration reminds us that the promise of this country — equality, freedom, and justice for all — has never been self-executing. It’s been carried forward, generation after generation, by the many people willing to defend it and turn its principle into practice.

U.S. federal courts are retreating from the judiciary’s traditional role as a check on unlawful government action. In response, the ACLU is assessing the landscape, pivoting our strategies, and figuring out how to continue to fight.