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Supreme Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Withhold Health Care from Incarcerated Transgender People

The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a request from the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow prison officials to withhold gender-affirming health care from ...
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Jennifer Wedekind

Jennifer Wedekind is the Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Jennifer has litigated a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues and has particular expertise in ...
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Gonzalez v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Challenging ICE’s de facto policy of failing to return property seized from people in civil immigration detention

When the government obtains someone’s property, it must return those items when its interest in them expires, even if it initially took control of the items lawfully. This means that if the government ...
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People Released From Immigration Detention Sue ICE for Refusing to Return Their Property

ICE has unlawfully failed to return people’s property, leading to job loss, significant financial costs, and risk of ...
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Block Club Chicago v. Department of Homeland Security

In the first 10 days of the second Trump administration, Chicago was “ground zero” for a massive ICE operation that arrested hundreds of people. They were dubbed “the worst of the worst” by ICE, but ...
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Nielsen v. Watanabe – Fighting for the Right To Seek Redress for Constitutional Violations by Federal Prison Officers

Kekai Watanabe was brutally attacked in a prison fight and his tailbone was broken. For months, prison staff at the federal prison in Hawai‘i where he was detained denied his requests for hospital ...
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No One Is Above the Law: Toolkit to Make Federal Agents Accountable in D.C.

Image Alt Text: A dark green graphic with white text that reads: “Tell the D.C. Council: Make federal agents accountable.” Above the text is a collage of a navy blue and white dual-tone image of a ...
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Why we shouldn’t have National Guard Troops in D.C.

On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to the District, in a brazen power grab based on a phony emergency. Over the coming months, governors of multiple ...
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Testimony before the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety on B26-0655, the Protecting Judicial Privacy Act of 2026

Our testimony addresses our recommendations regarding B26-0655, the Protecting Judicial Privacy Act of 2026, which aims to address the commendable goal of improving ...
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CNN v. Trump – Challenging the President’s Decision To Ban from the White House News Outlets Whose Reporting He Doesn’t Like

Once again, the Trump Administration is attempting to exert unconstitutional control over the content of expression—this time, by banning from the White House news organizations whose reporting has ...
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ACLU to Federal Court: White House Banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico Is Unconstitutional Retaliation

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the District of Columbia (ACLU of D.C.) today filed an amicus brief in support of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in their lawsuit against the ...
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NATHAN v. TRUMP – Birthright Citizenship Part II

Soon after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump’s Executive Order seeking to do away with birthright citizenship was unconstitutional, he tried again, with a new Executive Order, issued on ...