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Three Things to Know When Voting in D.C.

It’s time to vote in D.C., which means it’s time to make your voting plan and know your voting rights. Here are three things we want every D.C. voter to know.
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2026 Impact Report

2026 marks the 65th anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union in the District of Columbia and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This year has been full of big ...
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Supreme Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Withhold Health Care from Incarcerated Transgender People

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a request from the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to allow prison officials to withhold gender-affirming ...
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Jennifer Wedekind

Jennifer Wedekind is the Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Jennifer has litigated a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues and has particular expertise in ...
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People Released From Immigration Detention Sue ICE for Refusing to Return Their Property

WASHINGTON – A Russian asylum seeker and six other people who were held in immigration detention and later released from custody have filed a class action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs ...
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Federal Court Sides with Common Cause and Voters, Ruling DOJ Data Demands Violate Voter Privacy, States’ Election Authority

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal court sided with Common Cause and voters in their lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), ruling the DOJ’s campaign to consolidate sensitive voter data ...
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No One Is Above the Law: Toolkit to Make Federal Agents Accountable in D.C.

No one should be above the law — including ICE and other federal agents. Right now, it is easier to sue a store owner for slipping while shopping than it is to sue ICE and other federal agents for ...
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Nielsen v. Watanabe – Fighting for the Right To Seek Redress for Constitutional Violations by Federal Prison Officers

Kekai Watanabe was brutally attacked in a prison fight and his tailbone was broken. For months, prison staff at the federal prison in Hawai‘i where he was detained denied his requests for hospital ...
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Gonzalez v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Challenging ICE’s de facto policy of failing to return property seized from people in civil immigration detention

When the government obtains someone’s property, it must return those items when its interest in them expires, even if it initially took control of the items lawfully. This means that if the government ...
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CNN v. Trump – Challenging the President’s Decision To Ban from the White House News Outlets Whose Reporting He Doesn’t Like

Once again, the Trump Administration is attempting to exert unconstitutional control over the content of expression—this time, by banning from the White House news organizations whose reporting has ...
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Testimony before the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety on B26-0655, the Protecting Judicial Privacy Act of 2026

Our testimony addresses our recommendations regarding B26-0655, the Protecting Judicial Privacy Act of 2026, which aims to address the commendable goal of improving ...