David McGuire, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut, offered advice to anyone who feels overwhelmed as President Donald Trump returned to office and signed a slew of executive orders that may change policies on immigration and other issues.
Anti-transgender politicians spent more than $215 million on ads scapegoating trans people and promoting a Project 2025 agenda that threatens to rollback reproductive freedom and punish people for departing from archaic gender roles.
CONCORD, N.H. — Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over its executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with several other pro-immigrant groups, is suing the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end the constitutionally recognized right of birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states in its first sentence that:
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday night filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's controversial executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship.
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship on Thursday, calling the order “blatantly unconstitutional.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”
Lawyers for Civil Rights also sued, alleging Trump's order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment. The civil suit was filed on behalf of an expectant mother and immigration advocacy groups La Colaborativa and the Brazilian Worker Center.
The ACLU, for instance, has already said they plan to oppose Trump’s DEI policies during his second term. A spokesperson for the ACLU told the Washington Post this week that the organization is “analyzing Trump’s EOs right now, their potential impact, and how we can protect people’s fundamental rights in the face of these attacks.”
The first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.