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At the ACLU’s Civil Rights in the Digital Age AI Summit, leaders convened to evaluate the civil rights landscape of artificial intelligence and tech, and how we can call for policies that center privacy, fairness, and equity.

This term was marked by sharp right turns in major civil rights cases, a mixed record on lower-profile cases, and mixed outcomes in an ascendant emergency docket

This week at the ACLU of Maine: Reflections on the Fourth of July and what we can learn from Frederick Douglass, SCOTUS agrees to hear two ACLU cases, an upcoming webinar on the biggest Supreme Court decisions of 2025, and more. 

Habeas Corpus has protected our rights since before America’s founding. Today, the Trump administration has threatened to suspend this right to carry out its unlawful immigration agenda.

This week at the ACLU of Maine: A key data privacy bill advances, march with the ACLU in the Portland Pride parade, and more upcoming events. 

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.