Press Releases

Civil Rights Groups to Challenge Alabama Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, and Cooley LLP announced today plans to file a legal challenge to proposed legislation in Alabama that would criminalize medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Transgender Alabamians Tell Federal Appeals Court Lack of Accurate IDs Puts Their Lives at Risk 

A federal appeals court has for the first time heard arguments in a case involving accurate gender markers on IDs for transgender people.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Alabama Redistricting Case

The U.S. Supreme Court today granted Alabama’s bid to temporarily halt a district court ruling that had required the state to redraw its new congressional map to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Issue Areas: Voting Rights

Federal Court Blocks Alabama’s New Congressional Map, Orders Lawmakers to Draw Map with Two Majority-Black Districts

A federal court today struck down Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map.
Issue Areas: Voting Rights

Final Rules Issued on COVID Funds Prove Alabama’s Plan to Build Prisons Is Inappropriate 

Today, the Treasury Department issued its final rules on how states may use the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
Issue Areas: Criminal Legal Reform

Alabama Organizations Call on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to Halt the Use of COVID-19 Funds for Constructing Prisons

Today, the ACLU of Alabama, 23 other local organizations, and dozens of individuals all sent a letter demanding that U.S. House Financial Services Committee urgently investigate the State of Alabama’s ill-conceived plan to spend $400 million dollars of COVID relief funds to build prisons.
Issue Areas: Criminal Legal Reform

ACLU of Alabama Comment on Abortion Bill HB23

This week, state legislators pre-filed HB23, a bill that would ban abortion at 6 weeks of pregnancy and is similar to the abortion ban passed in Texas that is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court.

Groups Launch Legal Challenges Over Alabama Racial Gerrymandering

Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts.

ACLU of Alabama Comment on Passed Redistricting Maps

Today's passage of new district maps for Alabama has been a disappointment from start to finish.