News & Commentary

This month the ACLU will award its highest honors, the Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty, to Dave Archambault II and Regina Brave, and the Dorsen Presidential Prize in Academia, to Professor David Goldberger.

Constitution Day is the holiday to end all holidays; it’s a day dedicated to the thing that drives our passion and that we fight to defend on behalf of all North Dakotans every day – the Constitution.

President Trump’s announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is a cruel development for Dreamers and a damaging decision for all of us in North Dakota and across America. The ACLU of North Dakota stands with Dreamers in here and across America.

Today the president made good on his campaign promise to the Fraternal Order of Police to rescind Executive Order 13688 and put thousands of bayonets and hundreds of grenade launchers from the U.S. military back in the hands of police.

Our last in a series of updates from the 2017 North Dakota legislative session focuses on our lobbying efforts on behalf of the LGBT community, immigrants and refugees, religious freedom, and voting rights.

Our second in a series of updates from the 2017 North Dakota legislative session focuses on our lobbying efforts on criminal justice reform and privacy and technology.

The first in a series of updates on our lobbying efforts during the 2017 legislative session.

Standing Rock water protectors knew private security contractors and local law enforcement were treating their camp like a war zone. New documents prove it.

Since the passage of SB4, the ACLU has issued a travel advisory that anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future should anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.