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Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Government Over Asylum Ban and Rapid Deportation Process that Places Asylum Seekers in Grave Danger

“The previous administration tried to build a physical wall at the border, and now the current administration is trying to build a procedural wall at the border. Both are unlawful."

June 23, 2023

COURT OF APPEALS DENIES CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS AGAINST FEDERAL OFFICIALS FOR POLICE ATTACK ON CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATORS NEAR WHITE HOUSE

The Court is blocking us from holding federal officials responsible for attacking me and other demonstrators when we exercised our right to protest police brutality and racism.

June 23, 2023

ACLU-DC Statement on President Biden vetoing attempt to block D.C. police bill

"As we celebrate President Biden’s veto, we also renew our commitment to making D.C. the 51st state.”

May 25, 2023

ACLU-D.C. Staff Unionize with Voluntary Recognition

The ACLU-DC and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild announced the voluntary recognition of its employees’ union, which was formed with a supermajority of support from eligible staff.

May 4, 2023

Oral Arguments in Black Lives Matter D.C. Case Seeking to Hold Federal Officials Financially Accountable for 2020 Attack on Protestors

“What’s at stake in this appeal is a question testing our nation’s commitment to the rule of law: whether civil rights demonstrators, brutally attacked by federal officers without provocation across the street from the White House, can sue to vindicate their constitutional rights."

April 3, 2023

ACLU-D.C. Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Demonstrator Injured by Military Helicopter Used to Intimidate Racial Justice Protesters

The ACLU-D.C. filed a complaint on behalf of Dzhuliya Dashtamirova, a 25-year-old woman who suffered injuries caused by low-flying military helicopters that assaulted racial justice protestors on June 1, 2020, in downtown D.C.

March 14, 2023