Press Releases
Mar 26, 2025
Library Patrons Sue Greenville County Over Widespread Removals and Restrictions of LGBTQ Books
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Local library patrons, with help from the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of South Carolina, are suing officials in South Carolina’s most populous co...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Free Speech
Mar 25, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Reacts to President Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Jenner & Block
WASHINGTON — In response to President Trump issuing an Executive Order today attacking the legal profession, Cecillia Wang, National Legal Director of the American Civil Libertie...
Mar 25, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Responds to Trump’s Anti-Voter Executive Order
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ condemns President Donald Trump's executive order signed today, which aims to upend U.S. elections and disenfranchise millio...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: League of Women Voters Education Fund v. Trump
Mar 24, 2025
Arguments Wrap in Case Defending Black Representation in Louisiana’s Congressional Map
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, voting rights advocates argued before the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais that a congressional map that was in place during the 2024 election cycle...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: Callais v. Landry
Mar 24, 2025
Federal Court to Consider Preliminary Injunction Against Trump’s Discriminatory Passport Policy
BOSTON – Tomorrow, a federal district court will hear arguments from attorneys representing transgender and nonbinary Americans impacted by a new State Department policy requirin...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Orr v. Trump
Mar 22, 2025
Nearly Two Dozen Leading Civil Rights Groups Condemn Trump Administration Memo Threatening Lawyers and Law Firms That Bring Suits Against the Federal Government
Yesterday, the White House sent a memo to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem directing the Department of Justice to pursue sanction...
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New HampshireJun 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Barbara V. Donald J. Trump. Explore Case.Barbara v. Donald J. Trump
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News & CommentaryJun 2025
Free Speech
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Live Coverage: Final Scotus Decision Day. Explore News & Commentary.Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ has served as counsel or filed amicus briefs in more than half of the cases that the Supreme Court will decide today. -
News & CommentaryJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow To Trans Rights. Here's How To Take Action. Explore News & Commentary.The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action
The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, show up for trans youth in the courts and in our communities. -
Iowa Supreme CourtJun 2025
Criminal Law Reform
State V. Hidlebaugh. Explore Case.State v. Hidlebaugh
This case asks whether it violates equal protection principles to impose a prison sentence, instead of probation, based on a defendant’s inability to purchase a house. The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s State Supreme Court Initiative and the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Iowa filed an amicus brief arguing that imposing a harsher sentence based on a criminal defendant’s inability to purchase a home impinges on the equal protection guarantees in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and article I, sections 1 and 6 of the Iowa Constitution.