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Blog posts
Guidance for Virginia's LGBTQIA+ Communities After Trump's Inauguration
As anticipated, the new Trump Administration has issued a series of harmful and sweeping executive actions—including those targeting the LGBTQIA+ community.
Virginia's First-Ever Trans Joy Zine
Latest Press Releases
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...
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,...
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...
In the courts
Khan Suri v. Trump, et al.
The ACLU-VA and the HMA Law Firm filed an emergency motion in the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of a Georgetown professor who has been targeted by the Trump administration for removal from the U.S. in direct retaliation for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.
