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In a major victory for civil rights, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring U.S. Border Patrol from using practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution. The ruling applies to future immigration enforcement operations in the Eastern District of California, which stretches inland from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Read More

California is home to more immigrants than any other state in the country. To limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities during the first Trump administration, the legislature passed the California Values Act (SB 54) which prohibits sheriffs and police departments from using resources to aid immigration enforcement, with some exceptions. Read More

This constitutional crisis is unfolding on many fronts, and all of it demands our unrelenting vigilance and courage. Working together and using all the strategies available to us, Americans are mounting our own defense of freedom and the constitution.  Read More

When Donald Trump was sworn in as president, he lost no time launching Project 2025­—a right-wing policy agenda rooted in white supremacy that he had claimed to know nothing about. The ACLU stands ready—as we have for more than a century—to defend our vision of an inclusive democracy based on fundamental principles of equality. Read More

The League of Women Voters of California seeks to intervene in a lawsuit challenging state law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive within seven days of Election Day. If the lawsuit succeeds, hundreds of thousands of California voters could be disenfranchised. Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump administration's request for a stay of a district court order preventing the government from ending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans while the case proceeds. Read More

The ACLU has released a new video educating Californians about their rights during encounters with the police. Previous videos highlight the rights of protesters and immigrants. Read More

Encounters with the law can be stressful or scary. People have various experiences with law enforcement, some of which are not always fair or legal. This guide provides you practical information that could help you avoid more trouble or potentially harmful situations. The underlined words below are “magic words” that you can repeat over and over to show you know the law. Memorize them. Know your r... Read More

A federal court today blocked the federal government’s attempt to strip Venezuelans of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) while the case moves forward. Read More

California's Native American students learn and grow amid a fundamental contradiction: while their families, cultures, and Tribes embrace education as central to their ways of life, California's school systems too often fail to provide them with an equitable and inclusive education. Read More