News & Commentary

This term, the Court will rule in cases addressing reproductive rights, gun control, social media regulation and more hot-button issues.

Several ACLU affiliates issued an advisory warning their residents about the threat of civil and constitutional rights violations when traveling in the state of Oklahoma after the passage of an extreme anti-immigrant law.

Few places are more important for the exercise of free and open expression than where young people gather and are educated.

Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them.

The court issued a ruling in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis holding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employers from discriminating in decisions like lateral transfers, without requiring employees to show that the discriminatory decision caused “significant” disadvantage.

The City of St. Louis Board of Alders passed Board Bill 185 with a final passage vote of 13-2. Board Bill 185 promotes greater transparency, oversight, and community input in decisions about if and how the police and other city agencies use surveillance technologies.

Read our Q&A with Scout Katovich, staff attorney at the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, on the stakes of Grants Pass v. Johnson.

The court has declined to hear new challenges to admissions policies, leaving the door open for institutions to continue creative solutions for expanding opportunity.

Companies and legislators are using misleading test scores to justify the expansion of facial recognition into our communities. That flawed approach understates the threat this dangerous technology poses to civil rights.