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ACLU-VA will send press updates by email til summer

ACLU of Virginia's website is migrating, so no further press releases will post to the "Press" page on this website. To receive them, please reach out to press@acluva.org.

April 25, 2025

ICE's rogue tactics leave no safe place for immigrants

“Our courthouses should be a safe place for people to have access to the judicial process as witnesses, plaintiffs, or defendants. These kinds of actions will have a chilling effect on all of us, especially victims of crime and witnesses who are immigrants," said Mary Bauer.

April 23, 2025

Students sue Department of Defense schools over curriculum changes, book bans

“The government can’t scrub references to race and gender from public school libraries and classrooms just because the Trump administration doesn’t like certain viewpoints on those topics,” said Matt Callahan, Senior Supervising Attorney at the ACLU of Virginia.

April 15, 2025

Video of arrest, new details in Trump administration’s case targeting Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Dr. Khan Suri for speech on Palestinian rights

“In my work, I’ve seen lots of injustice. I just didn't think it would happen to me here," says Dr. Khan Suri.

April 8, 2025

Red Onion cannot be allowed to retaliate against incarcerated people for exercising their First Amendment rights

“Without electricity, people in solitary in Red Onion are completely cut off from the outside world, all for refusing to sign their name to something they believe is false,” said ACLU of Virginia Senior Staff Attorney Geri Greenspan. "That's not just cruel – it's unlawful."

March 27, 2025

ACLU of Virginia files emergency motion to stop Trump administration’s illegal deportation of Georgetown professor for exercising free speech

“Ripping someone from their home and family, stripping them of their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint and activism is a clear attempt by President Trump to silence dissent,” said ACLU of Virginia Senior Immigrants’ Rights Attorney Sophia Gregg.

March 20, 2025