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Trump's decision to send thousands of National Guard troops into Los Angeles is clearly retaliatory and an attempt to suppress constitutionally protected protests against the administration's violent immigration enforcement raids. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit to block Sonoma County code inspectors from using drones to conduct surveillance of people's homes without a warrant. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to stay a federal district court's order that had preserved Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who have sought refuge in the United States and are unable to return safely to Venezuela. Read More

The Trump administration asked the U. S. Supreme Court to stay a federal district court's order preserving Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants. If SCOTUS grants a stay, Venezuelans who registered for TPS in 2023 would immediately face the prospect of deportation while the case proceeds.   Read More

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

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

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

In the first hearing in NTPSA v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to terminate humanitarian protections for more than one million Haitian and Venezuelan TPS holders, plaintiffs asked the court to put on hold DHS Secretary Noem's plan to revoke work authorization and legal status in early April for 350,000 Venezuelans while the case proceeds. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a motion today to challenge an unconstitutionally broad search warrant that authorized UCSC police to seize and search a student’s cellphone, in violation of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), the First and Fourth Amendments, and the California Constitution.  Read More

After Trump threatens to pull funding from colleges and univerities that allow "illegal" protests, the ACLU sent a letter to colleges and universities, urging them to protect free speech. Read More

On behalf of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and five Kern County residents, the ACLUs of California sued the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Border Patrol to prohibit immigration agents from stopping, arresting, and expelling community members from the country using practices that violate the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Read More