The Latest Breaking News from ACLU

The ACLU is mounting a major new effort to overturn Kansas’ death penalty, arguing it’s racially discriminatory and that, because of a landmark state Supreme Court decision upholding abortion rights, officials must clear a high legal bar to show capital sentences are constitutional.

Invoked under the Trump administration, Title 42 uses public health as a justification for expelling asylum seekers.

The Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the district

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is failing to provide some immigrants who are in the country legally with the types of driver’s licenses they are entitled to under the law, according to two organizations that have asked the agency to clarify its policies.

DALLAS — The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into Granbury ISD, a North Texas district where officials removed books with LGBTQ themes.

The Central Bucks School District is one of the wealthiest school systems in Pennsylvania. That will come in handy since the district is paying a lawyer $940 an hour to defend a federal complaint of its own making.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of Albuquerque in an effort to stop officials in the state’s largest city from destroying homeless encampments and jailing and fining people who are living on the street

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lexington County, South Carolina, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by several people who had been jailed in the county for a failure to pay court fines and fees, who compared their situation to a modern-day “debtor’s prison.”

WASHINGTON — Federal observers documented repeated issues with Alaska Native language support during the Nov. 8 general election, months after flagging concerns with election protocols in August.

MIAMI — A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Miami of creating racially segregated districts when officials redrew the boundaries of the city’s voting map in the spring, a controversial process that drew opposition from neighborhood groups over concerns that the plan weakened the political power of Black voters in Coconut Grove.

PHILADELPHIA — The Central Bucks school board is advancing a policy that would ban staff members from advocating to students about “partisan, political or social policy issues,” a proposal critics said would have a chilling effect on teachers.