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- MassachusettsApr 2025
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Özturk v. TrumpÖzturk v. Trump
Whether someone with a valid visa within the U.S. can be arrested and detained on the basis of their political speech and advocacy. - News & CommentaryApr 2025
LGBTQ Rights
The Human Toll of Trump's Anti-Trans CrusadeThe Human Toll of Trump's Anti-Trans Crusade
President Donald Trump’s assault on transgender rights is a gross overreach of presidential power and yet another attempt to punish trans people just for existing. - MontanaApr 2025
Civil Liberties
LGBTQ Rights
Perkins et al. v. StatePerkins et al. v. State
A newly enacted Montana law, HB 121, bars transgender and intersex people from using restrooms and other sex-separated facilities that correspond to their gender identity in public spaces. In doing so, HB 121 seeks to undermine transgender and intersex people’s personhood and ability to participate in public life. Together with the ACLU of Montana and Legal Voice, the ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative filed this lawsuit on behalf of a group of transgender and intersex Montanans challenging HB 121 as violating numerous provisions of the Montana Constitution. - FloridaApr 2025
Immigrants' Rights
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION v. UTHMEIFERFLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION v. UTHMEIFER
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Americans for Immigrant Justice filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s new extreme anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 4C (SB 4C), which authorizes state and local law enforcement to imprison people based on their manner of entering the country — powers the Constitution reserves exclusively to the federal government. The lawsuit is brought on behalf of the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), and individual plaintiffs — including longtime Florida residents with pending federal immigration applications and with U.S. citizen family members who rely on their care.