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The 2025 legislative session presented critical opportunities for Maine lawmakers to push back against the federal government’s attempts to disrupt our legal system and roll back our rights. Learn more about this year's top priorities and where we go from here.

After a harrowing ICE detention, she’s urging others to protect immigrant rights.

This week at the ACLU of Maine: A major win in our birthright citizenship case, a fun community gathering in Kennebunk, and a link to this week's Supreme Court Recap presentation.

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. 

As AI increasingly makes decisions in hiring, policing, and social services, the ACLU’s Civil Rights in the Digital Age Summit focuses on promoting responsible AI design to ensure technology protects rights and serves justice for all.

The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, show up for trans youth in the courts and in our communities.

This week at the ACLU of Maine: The state legislature wraps up its session, SCOTUS hands down major decisions, Maine upholds its strongest-in-the-nation internet privacy laws, and more. 

We're not backing down in the fight to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment and birthright citizenship.