We’re 2 months and 21 lawsuits into the new Trump administration – and every one of those lawsuits is to protect people from attempts to strip away our most fundamental rights.
With so much on the line – and new updates every single day – we’re here to give you the latest from the frontlines of the fight for our rights. Here are just some of the cases we’re fighting:
- Just yesterday, we argued at the Supreme Court to defend voting rights –fighting an attempt to deny Black voters equal representation and a meaningful choice at the polls.
- Alongside NYCLU, ACLU of New Jersey, the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, Van Der Hout LLP, and Dratel + Lewis, we’re fighting to free Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate student at Columbia University, who’s been detained and threatened with deportation in retaliation for his speech defending Palestinian human rights.
- The ACLU of Virginia has also challenged the deportation of Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown professor who was also targeted because of his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights and his family’s ties to Gaza.
- We’re suing the Trump administration to protect gender-affirming care for those under 19 and for those in federal prisons, as well as to block the State Department from denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people
- We filed to stop Trump’s attacks on birthright citizenship, to end the deportation of immigrants to Guantánamo Bay and to provide legal counsel to those currently detained there, to stop an unconstitutional effort to fast-track deportations, to protect our right to asylum, and to block him from using an archaic wartime law to justify mass deportations.
- We’re challenging the National Endowment for the Arts’ policy blocking grant recipients from using funds to “promote gender ideology.”
- As Trump continues trying to censor what our students can learn, we’re suing in response to his threats to slash funding to schools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, as well as against his choice to removing medical research by private doctors from a government website for including the words “LGBTQ” and “transgender.”
We’re continuing to fight back outside of court, too – with your help, we’ve sent over 240,000 messages demanding Congress check DOGE’s violation of our privacy rights, we’ve sent 128,000 messages to acting ICE director Todd Lyons to free Mahmoud Khalil, and we’re continuing to pressure our representatives to do the right thing and defend our rights.
And this is all just the start. We’re only 2 months in – and with your support, we won’t let up. We’ll keep challenging these attacks on our rights inside and outside of the courtroom, and we’ll keep in touch with the latest as these cases progress.
Thanks for powering our work – we couldn’t do it without you.
The ACLU Team
ACLU of Washington
P.O. Box 2728
Seattle, WA 98111-2728