The Supreme Court heard rare second-round oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could fundamentally weaken or eliminate Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The case questions whether Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black congressional district (which elected Rep. …
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Records obtained by The San Francisco Standard in September 2025 revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) allowed out-of-state police agencies to run more than 1.6 million illegal searches of the city’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) database, including at least 19 …
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Legal resistance network files simultaneous federal lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions challenging recent executive orders that potentially violate constitutional separation of powers. The ACLU and Protect Democracy lead a coalition challenging executive orders related to voting rights and …
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Major law firms, legal nonprofits, and civil liberties organizations create a centralized, multi-organizational coordination platform to rapidly deploy pro bono legal resources for constitutional defense. Democracy 2025, a coalition of 650+ organizations, emerges as a key infrastructure, enabling …
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In response to Project 2025’s comprehensive policy proposals, major civil rights organizations launched a coordinated litigation and advocacy strategy to challenge potential executive overreach. The coalition, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, Lawyers for Civil Rights, and EarthJustice, …
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In a landmark decision, Congress reauthorized and expanded Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), dramatically increasing domestic surveillance capabilities. The legislation allows warrantless access to Americans’ communications and compels a wide range of businesses …
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On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order challenging birthright citizenship, targeting children born to non-citizen or undocumented parents. The order, which directly mirrors Project 2025 recommendations, seeks to reinterpret the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, …
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The ACLU, National Lawyers Guild, and Protect Democracy formed a comprehensive legal resistance network to challenge potential constitutional overreaches. Developed as a multi-jurisdictional strategy, the network includes seven strategic roadmaps for coordinated litigation across voting rights, …
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First comprehensive inter-organizational legal resistance coalition meeting, bringing together over 650 organizations including ACLU, Protect Democracy, Brennan Center, and Democracy 2025. The coalition, representing 2000+ legal experts, strategizes coordinated legal approaches to defend democratic …
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In response to increasing institutional challenges, a network of pro bono legal organizations begins systematic coordination to challenge unconstitutional policies and administrative overreach. Key civil rights and constitutional law organizations form a unified strategic litigation approach, …
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Flock Safety’s automated license plate recognition network reaches unprecedented scale, with more than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the United States using interconnected cameras that perform over 20 billion scans of vehicles every month. The company now operates in more than 5,000 …
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Edward Snowden published his memoir “Permanent Record” on September 17, 2019 (Constitution Day), through Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company. The book provided Snowden’s first-person account of his life, his work in the intelligence community, his decision to …
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On July 26, 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released results of an independently verified test demonstrating that Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with mugshots from a database of arrest photos. The test, which cost …
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The ACLU of Northern California released a report revealing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram had provided special data access to Geofeedia, a surveillance technology company that marketed its location-based monitoring tools to law enforcement agencies for tracking Black Lives Matter protesters …
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled in ACLU v. Clapper that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone metadata was not authorized by Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, effectively declaring the surveillance program …
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