As the death toll reaches 190, it's time for another reminder that the boat strikes are unlawful under both international and domestic law--and they are a stain on our national conscience. For much more, take a look at this @justsecurity.org collection: www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

According to a new poll, 61% of Americans say using military force against Iran was a mistake. I didn't even know 61% of Americans agreed that the sky was blue. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

UPDATE: The Trump-Vance-Rubio State Department is exploring "tools to impose consequences on those who provide support" to the Global Sumud Flotilla. Hundreds worldwide (including the US) joined the flotilla to breach Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza. Thousands have donated.

What's absolutely bonkers is that Dems are the reason this passed. Like we deserve representatives that understand Congress shouldn't be rubberstamping a law that the government abuses to spy on Americans without a warrant. But, i guess the bar is in Hell.

Your near daily reminder that calling and emailing and being fucking annoying to your reps, regardless of party, changes shit. It does and it will.

they are. next question!

ACLU's @granick.bsky.social was once called "the NBA all-star of surveillance law" by @wyden.senate.gov. And now, after many years, she's hanging up her jersey. Read about her important fight over the past decade to protect our data from overbroad digital warrants. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a final administrative removal order against Mahmoud Khalil. His lawyers, who anticipated this, said it didn’t impact the status quo, they’ll appeal to the 5th Circuit, & that he cannot be detained while his habeas case is pending.

Congress is considering reauthorizing a law that the government has repeatedly used to warrantlessly spy on U.S. citizens, including protestors and journalists. Our leaders must vote no on this dangerous privacy invasion.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

can't wait for Hillary Duff's new PSA

Barrett now asks about the "messy" applications of birthright citizenship, asking how the government would deal with "foundlings" where the parents aren't known. SG starts by deferring to a statute on that and Barrett responds immediately with "yeah yeah yeah yeah but what about the Constitution"?

The Pentagon is asking for $200 billion to help fund President Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran. Our taxpayer dollars should go toward keeping our communities safe, not an illegal war.

Not even 4 days later, the Pentagon has now said they're asking for at least $200 billion in additional funding from Congress.

We agree with the Senator — Congress must not give any additional taxpayer dollars to fund this unconstitutional war on Iran.

we expelled them, blacklisted them, called cops to beat the shit out of them, and deported them. why aren't they protesting again? i'm very smart

You're going to tell their employers, their neighbors and their schools that they were out on the streets bravely defending their community from the masked goons who are murdering and terrorizing people? Are you going to send them flowers and candy as well?

The Trump administration murdered Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo — and their families deserve answers. Our clients are bravely holding the Trump administration accountable for their lawless boat strike. We won’t stop until Chad and Rishi’s families get justice.

As someone who grew up in Colorado and Tennessee, and then went to college at Indiana, I can definitively say I have never seen so many of my normie acquaintances this outraged on main. I dont think ICE realizes the sleeping giant of apolitical people they've just awakened.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The death of Renee Good can be the impetus for finally closing a gaping hole in our constitutional protections,” the legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky and Burt Neuborne write in a guest essay.

🚨 A new ACLU/YouGov poll finds that US voters strongly support more transparency and accountability for Trump's illegal boat strikes. One tidbit: 83% say the Trump admin should publicly release its legal justification for these strikes. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Hina Shamsi, ACLU: “The FBI report is infused w/ vague + overbroad language. Ppl entirely innocent of wrongdoing can be subjected to surveillance or investigations...No matter what NSPM-7 says, the Constitution constrains federal agencies if they seek to punish ppl for exercising free speech rights"

USCIS told a federal court it cut its FOIA backlog by 99.96% in three months. A whistleblower inside the agency says they changed the rules for rejecting requests from immigrants. Rejections for "Failure to Comply" rose from about 5,400 to 42,000 in one year. www.govexec.com/oversight/20...

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

The president doesn’t have the power to create a private, secret legal universe where cold-blooded murder of civilians can be recast as lawful policy. Congress and the courts must demand transparency now, before more people are murdered by our government. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face “Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society” www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...

Did you know that privacy is actually the gateway for the rest of our rights? In our new series, ACLU expert @chadmarlow.bsky.social breaks down all the ways the government is spying on us and why it's so vital that we keep fighting for our right to privacy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJ...

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

This is a very good essay from the @ACLU’s Brett Kaufman making the case that Trump’s boat strikes should be viewed as the logical end point of legal arguments normalized by OLC lawyers during the war on terror. Highly recommend. www.justsecurity.org/124776/secre...

Congress is debating a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Act that would get rid of the confirmation process for senior positions at CIA and other spy agencies. Tell your Senators to reject this harmful proposal. The last thing we need is less public oversight of intelligence agencies. 

This is the 16th strike of its kind this year — and at least 66 people are dead because of the government’s rash actions. These extrajudicial strikes are illegal under both international and domestic law.

BREAKING: An appeals court denied the Trump administration's latest effort to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area. This ruling is more confirmation that President Trump's attempts to send troops into our communities are unjustified and cannot continue.

BREAKING: Late last night, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deploying any out-of-state federalized National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. This is a win for the rule of law.

🚨"Mario's detention is a true five-alarm fire for press freedom in this country, particularly for noncitizen journalists, but also for any journalist who covers law enforcement activity." Everyone who spoke up for Kimmel, needs to be just as loud for Mario. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

"Bottom line: you know your chain of command would hold you accountable if anything went wrong. Make sure you have the wherewithal to hold it accountable as well." www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to create a new task force of National Guard troops that it could quickly send to quell protests across the country. If President Trump carries out this gross abuse of power, we're ready to protect our rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

$297,880 of your taxpayer dollars on the vehicles alone. Here are the purchase orders.

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes. Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”

Trump's raids on DC's homeless encampments are starting tonight, although most of these people have nowhere else to go. “In DC, there are, right now, 30 open shelter beds for men and 30 open shelter beds for women… So for all intents and purposes, there’s nowhere else for people to go.”

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

Last night, I saw 3 NYPD officers arresting a man. I asked if he had been read his Miranda rights. After ignoring me, a cop finally said "those are just for tv." Bizarre how once I mentioned i work at ACLU and started reciting the rights, @nypd.bsky.social suddenly remembered they exist.

Good. Trump deploying the National Guard to NYC would be a blatant abuse of power. Engineering falsehoods that New York City is in turmoil and sending in military troops is fascism in action.

In a powerful first-person account, Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in an ICE detention center. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

"Among us was a singer with almost a million followers, a talented violinist, a Pilates instructor, a visual arts teacher, a devoted mom, a loving grandmother, and a woman with a passion for arranging flowers... And me, a confused international doctoral student." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

If you read one thing today, make it Rümeysa Öztürk's first essay since being released from ICE detention for co-authoring an op-ed in her college newspaper. It will break your heart and stitch it back together again. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

NEW: An appeals court rejected the Trump administration's desperate ploy to re-detain Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Today's decision marks another loss for the government's crackdown on immigrants speaking out on Palestine.

We’re at “criming babies” levels of absurd now

Trying to figure out if I just got hit by a truck or the Supreme Court