News & Commentary

This week we learned that a Christian motivational speaking organization was invited to speak at Linton High School in Linton, ND. We're taking action. Do you know your religious freedom rights at school?

We filed a friend of of the court brief today to defend the free speech rights of Greenpeace and other environmental organizations in federal court.

The ACLU of North Dakota submitted comments on a judges' petition to end a provision allowing legal services by out-of-state attorneys for defendants with pending criminal cases related to the DAPL protests in 2016.

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.