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| Bunny, our First Amendment rights are under attack – and with supporters like you on our side, the ACLU is suing to fight back. Here's the latest: - We've joined Rümeysa Öztürk's legal team. Rümeysa is a PhD student who was abducted off the street by masked, plainclothes federal agents, sent to a detention facility in Louisiana without notice to her loved ones or lawyers, and had her visa revoked for writing an op-ed criticizing university policy. We were in court yesterday demanding that this case stay in Massachusetts – rather than hundreds of miles away from her home. The government must release Rümeysa immediately.
- We had a major win in Mahmoud Khalil's case. A federal court ruled that his case will proceed in New Jersey, rather than in Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.
- We filed an amicus brief to stop the Trump administration from targeting law firms they don't agree with – as President Trump has ordered sanctions against the firm Perkins Coie in retaliation for their past work on voting rights lawsuits and their representation of President Trump's prior political opponents. The Trump administration cannot silence those who disagree with him or evade legal accountability by sanctioning lawyers and firms who challenge him.
- After we sued, the National Endowment for the Arts temporarily dropped its requirement prohibiting grant recipients from "promoting gender ideology" using NEA funding. But a judge just denied us a preliminary injunction in our case, refusing to proactively block the NEA from reinstating that prohibition but acknowledging that it likely violates the First Amendment. It's not the outcome we hoped for, but we remain hopeful that artists' free speech rights will prevail.
- We're continuing our case against the Trump administration for removing medical research papers by private doctors from a federal website – for referencing transgender people and the LGBTQ community more broadly. The government's censorship of critical scientific information harms us all.
- Just yesterday, we had a hearing in our case about the Trump administration invoking a 1700s wartime law to illegally deport immigrants. We already won a federal injunction that temporarily prevents the government from proceeding with these deportations – and now we're asking the court to look into how hundreds of people were transferred to a Salvadoran prison in apparent violation of its orders. President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is as unprecedented as it is unlawful, and we're not backing down until this order is stopped for good.
And Bunny, while our lawyers take these fights to court, there's action you can take too: All of these cases above are only possible because we have fair and impartial judges reining in the Trump administration's attempts to abuse their power and violate our rights. But right now, Congress is considering a bill that would restrict judges' ability to prevent irreparable harm from unconstitutional policies. Here's where you come in: Tell Congress to vote no on this dangerous bill and protect our courts now. We won't stop until we overturn every attack on our rights – and we'll keep reaching out with the latest on these important fights. With thanks for all you do, The ACLU Team |
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