Press Releases
Nov 19, 2025
New ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Report Exposes Systemic Failures Behind Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions
NEW YORK — The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ released Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Race and Wrongful Convictions today, a new report exposing how racism, human error, and systemic fa...
Issue Areas:
Capital Punishment
Racial Justice
Nov 18, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Comment on Department of Education’s Dismantling of Core Civil Rights and Education Offices
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will transfer critical work to other federal agencies — an unprecedented move that undermines the departm...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Disability Rights
Nov 18, 2025
Dozens of Veterans Descend on Capitol Hill to Oppose Military Deployments to U.S. Cities
41 veterans from 21 states and five branches of the military met with over 40 Congressional offices to urge them to defend the Constitution
Issue Areas:
National Security
Nov 18, 2025
Judge Orders Texas School Districts to Remove Ten Commandments Displays in Response to New Lawsuit Filed by Families
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In a win for religious freedom and church-state separation, a federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain public school districts i...
Issue Areas:
Religious Liberty
Nov 18, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Demands Information From DHS ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Alarming Pattern of Retaliation against Those Recording Immigration Agents
Immigration agents have threatened, brandished guns, and arrested those who record their raids. The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ is urgently seeking disclosure of records related to this practice.
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Nov 14, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Files Lawsuit to Demand Transparency from the FDA in Its Review of Medication Abortion Regulations
WASHINGTON — The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ (ºìÐÓÊÓƵ) filed a lawsuit yesterday to compel the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to disclose records related to the agency’s re...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: ºìÐÓÊÓƵ v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Privacy & Technology
License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data. Explore News & Commentary.License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data
Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected -
News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Rümeysa Öztürk: I Saw The Horrors Of Ice Detention Firsthand. It Is No Place For A Child.. Explore News & Commentary.Rümeysa Öztürk: I Saw the Horrors of ICE Detention Firsthand. It is No Place for a Child.
As she witnesses the news of ICE detaining thousands of children, child development scholar Rümeysa Öztürk reflects on how detention and deportation negatively impact children for a lifetime, in relation to her own experiences of being detained. -
News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Human Rights
Congress Must Rein In Ice To Improve The State Of The Union. Explore News & Commentary.Congress Must Rein in ICE to Improve the State of the Union
President Donald Trump will likely celebrate a false sense of success in his State of the Union address. There’s strength in this union, but not the way the president thinks.
