News & Commentary

While some gun regulations raise Second Amendment concerns, a ban on carrying weapons at a protest does not.

ACLU President Susan Herman joins At Liberty to discuss the organization's historic, unanimous vote on impeachment.

The Supreme Court’s ruling is particularly dangerous for people of color and people with low incomes. The Biden-Harris administration can quickly reverse this dangerous course.

The 2020 election is finally behind us. Getting us to the point where every vote was counted, and more people voted, took a massive year-long effort by the ACLU of Minnesota.

The Trump administration botched its attempt at police reform. The incoming Biden-Harris administration has the opportunity to fix those mistakes.

The Minneapolis City Council has passed the Safety For All Budget, investing $7.77 million in mental health crisis responses and violence prevention. While this would by no means solve all our problems, it's a vital step in the right direction and a pivotal moment for our city

Secret police forces patrolling our neighborhoods in response to protests is unacceptable.

If officials fail to prioritize incarcerated individuals for the vaccine, we will take them to court.

In the middle of the 2020 pandemic, America was shaken by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the protests that erupted in the aftermath. But the disturbing trends we see today in police violence are the same patterns we’ve seen over the last 100 years. Again and again, commissions convened to examine why police brutality sparks unrest have come to the same conclusion: We must address the poverty and systemic racism that go hand in hand with policing communities of color. This week, we launched a series of four short films taking a critical look at what we’ve learned from the last 100 years of racism in policing. The solution to healing this long-standing problem is clear: It’s time to divest from the police and reinvest in communities of color.