Press Releases
Jun 21, 2024
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Comment on Supreme Court Decision Upholding Restrictions on Gun Possession by Individuals Subject to Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal criminal law that makes it a felony for anyone subject to a civil domestic violence restraining order to possess a gun...
Issue Areas:
Women's Rights
Court case: United States v. Rahimi
Jun 19, 2024
Civil Liberties Groups Will File Lawsuit Against Louisiana Law Requiring Public Schools to Display the Ten Commandments
BATON ROUGE, La. — The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from ...
Issue Areas:
Religious Liberty
Jun 18, 2024
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Comment on Biden Plan to Keep Families TogetherÂ
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is poised to announce an executive action today designed to protect many U.S. citizens’ undocumented spouses and their children from depor...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jun 18, 2024
Garza Martinez, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, and ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Texas Fight to Hold Government Accountable for Unlawful Prosecution of South Texas’ Lizelle Gonzalez
McALLEN, Texas – The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Texas, and Texas-based firm Garza Martinez filed an opposition to a motion to dismiss today in a case challenging the...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Court case: Gonzalez v. Ramirez et al.
Jun 17, 2024
Federal Court Temporarily Halts Iowa's Anti-Immigrant SF 2340
A federal court has temporarily blocked Iowa's anti-immigrant SF 2340. The ruling is here: /cases/iowa-migrant-mov…r-justice-v-bird
The ruling stems from a la...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice v. Bird
Jun 17, 2024
Federal Court Partially Halts Oklahoma’s Classroom Censorship Law
OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal court granted a partial preliminary injunction that will blunt the impact of Oklahoma’s classroom censorship law, HB 1775, which sought to severely re...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Racial Justice
Court case: Black Emergency Response Team v. O'Connor
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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.