ACLU-MN Responds to DOJ’s Withdrawal from Consent Decree
On May 21, the Department of Justice announced that it will be asking the court to withdraw from the consent decree agreement it reached with the Minneapolis Police Department.
The ACLU celebrates everyone, highly visible or not, who continues to exercise their First Amendment right to free speech and uses their voice to protect the rule of law, bodily autonomy, and all the civil...
In March, the ACLU-MN and pro bono counsel sued the school district on behalf of students who were unable to access important works of literature that had been removed from the library and classrooms.
Habeas Corpus has protected our rights since before America’s founding. Today, the Trump administration has threatened to suspend this right to carry out its unlawful immigration agenda.
The consent decree was created in response to decades of racially biased, excessively violent policing in Minneapolis and was catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd.
A federal habeas petition filed May 2 seeks the release of Aditya Harsono, a 34-year-old Minnesota resident and new father who was taken into ICE custody by plainclothes agents on March 27.
President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders that would target sanctuary cities and direct law enforcement to pursue legal action against state or local officials accused of “obstructing criminal...