The Government is Using its Foreign Intelligence Spying Powers for Routine Domestic Investigations

Congress gave the government exceptional surveillance powers to pursue foreign spies. It is abusing those powers to go after Americans in ordinary criminal investigations.

The Department of Justice building in Washington, DC.

CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests

If this memo is authentic, CBP has been caught in a lie.

A CBP officer watches over travellers at an airport.

Block the Vote: Voter Suppression in 2020

We're fighting to ensure that all voices are heard at the ballot box.

Person wearing blue with an I voted sticker

Black History Month: The Struggle Is Ours to Win

Black History Month reminds us that Americans of African descent have played a central role in the progress of this state and our country from the start, even if history books don’t emphasize it.

By Joey Francilus

VoteRights

The Government Is Trying to Strip Student Workers of the Ability to Unionize

As an organization deeply devoted to both academic freedom and free association, we won’t stand by it.

Striking teaching assistants protest on the campus of Columbia University in New York.

We’re Back in Court this Week Defending Access to Safe Abortion in Kentucky

Attacks on abortion access have left Kentucky with only one clinic left in the entire state.

A Welcome to Kentucky road sign with the name of Governor Steven L. Beshear

Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”

The United States has an obligation to ensure asylum seekers have access to a safe haven from persecution, and it's not following through.

A line of Guatemalans arriving outside of the Guatemala City airport after having been deported from the US back to Guatemala.

What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective

Our authorities need to respond with cool heads, based on science, and without intruding any more than strictly necessary on people’s civil liberties.

A gloved hand holding a vial of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in a laboratory.

Trump’s Three Year Campaign to Separate Families: The Muslim Ban

With the NO BAN Act, Congress has the opportunity to right the administration’s, and the Supreme Court’s, wrong, and prevent Trump from harming more communities.

In this April 25, 2018 photo, a person holds up a sign that reads "No Muslim Ban" during an anti-Muslim ban rally at the Supreme Court