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This term, the court will issue decisions impacting immigration, free speech, religious liberty, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

Can Trump change the law with an executive order? Erase DEI at the federal level? Target dissent? ACLU experts answer.

With 53 lawsuits filed against the Trump administration and counting, we will not surrender our freedoms to a lawless executive branch.

Governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other local officials are starting to vocally say no to President Donald Trump’s radical and dangerous agenda. Here’s why their roles are so crucial for our democracy and the state of civil liberties today.

This week at the ACLU of Maine: We're demanding more information about ICE operations in Maine, gearing up to fight bans against trans student athletes, and preparing to push back against more abuses of power by the Trump administration.

Activating federalized troops for mass deportation would be unprecedented, unnecessary, and wrong.

It was another busy week at the ACLU of Maine: We have new Know Your Rights materials, we were out and about in Portland, and we learned more about where immigrants are being held as President Trump attempts to carry out his cruel policy of "mass deportations."

It was another busy week at the ACLU of Maine! Here's what you might have missed.

When the president threatened to withhold funding to Maine and said "I am the law," Gov. Mills responded by defending the rule of law and saying one of our favorite phrases: We’ll see you in court.