Press Releases
Feb 07, 2025
North Carolina Judge Finds Racial Bias in Death Penalty in Landmark Case
RALEIGH, N.C. – In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his ...
Issue Areas:
Capital Punishment
Feb 07, 2025
Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Demand Trump Administration Provide Information, Access to Immigrants Transferred to Guantánamo Bay
WASHINGTON – Immigrants’ rights advocates signed a letter today urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), and State Department to provide i...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Feb 06, 2025
New Report Finds Nevada’s Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
HRW and ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Outline How Mine Was Permitted Without Free, Prior and Informed Consent
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Human Rights
Feb 04, 2025
Families and Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Executive Order Seeking to Restrict Access to Gender-Affirming Care
WASHINGTON – Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth joined PFLAG National and GLMA in a federal legal challenge against an executive order from the Trump ad...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Feb 03, 2025
Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Efforts to Completely Shut Down Asylum at the Border
WASHINGTON — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the president’s recent proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border,...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Feb 03, 2025
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Urges Court to Order Government to Release Records on Fusion Center and Joint Terrorism Task Force Surveillance
Just days ago, Trump ordered JTTFs to help with immigration enforcement in the U.S.
Issue Areas:
National Security
Free Speech
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New HampshireJun 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Barbara V. Donald J. Trump. Explore Case.Barbara v. Donald J. Trump
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News & CommentaryJun 2025
Free Speech
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Live Coverage: Final Scotus Decision Day. Explore News & Commentary.Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day
The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ has served as counsel or filed amicus briefs in more than half of the cases that the Supreme Court will decide today. -
News & CommentaryJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow To Trans Rights. Here's How To Take Action. Explore News & Commentary.The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action
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. -
Iowa Supreme CourtJun 2025
Criminal Law Reform
State V. Hidlebaugh. Explore Case.State v. Hidlebaugh
This case asks whether it violates equal protection principles to impose a prison sentence, instead of probation, based on a defendant’s inability to purchase a house. The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™s State Supreme Court Initiative and the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Iowa filed an amicus brief arguing that imposing a harsher sentence based on a criminal defendant’s inability to purchase a home impinges on the equal protection guarantees in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and article I, sections 1 and 6 of the Iowa Constitution.