American Civil Liberties Union


Kennedy seeks to cut US children's access to gender-affirming care

Kennedy proposed rules barring hospitals that provide such care from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs and prohibiting Medicaid from paying for it.

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Apple, Google plan software to slow virus, joining debate on tracking

To be effective, the Silicon Valley system would require millions of people to opt in the system, trusting the technology companies’ safeguards.

An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018.

The final nail in the ACLU’s coffin

The ACLU’s move from the neutral protector of civil liberties to a partisan advocate of hard-left politics is both a symptom and consequence of it's changes.

GROUPS INCLUDING the Council on American-Islamic Relations, MoveOn.org, Oxfam, and the ACLU hold a rally and prayer service in front of the White House to mark the anniversary of the first Trump administration travel and refugee ban in January