A pregnant teenager currently staying at a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in Texas has been prevented from getting an abortion by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

The administrative complaint charges the agency’s health screening policy violates the Rehabilitation Act, the federal law that prohibits disability discrimination by federal agencies.

Decades of punitive laws and policies have guided a failed approach to ending prostitution and have made our communities less safe. The ACLU-DC supports passage of this bill, which prioritizes public health and safety.

The U.S. citizen has been held by the military since approximately September 14, reportedly in Iraq. The ACLU filed petition on his behalf asking the Pentagon to grant him access to attorneys so he may challenge his detention.

The lawsuit challenged the actions of four Metropolitan Police Department officers who entered her home and arrested her without a warrant.

The government's overbroad search warrant implicates the private Facebook pages of two local activists and First Amendment rights of thousands of Facebook users.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that the discriminatory denial of a request for a transfer can be a violation of federal employment discrimination law.

The suit asserts the Washington area transit system’s advertising restrictions as violations of the First Amendment.

The ACLU-DC, National ACLU, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, National Immigration Law Center, and the law firm Jenner & Block filed class-action lawsuit seeking to enjoin the State Department’s unlawful refusal to process visa applications.