President Trump today signed executive orders authorizing funding for the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, dramatically ramping up immigration detention, and threatening to defund cities and states that protect people’s rights without regard to immigration status.

PHOENIX—ACLU of Arizona Legal Director Kathy Brody will argue today before the Arizona Supreme Court against the use of general neighborhood characteristics by police to justify pat-down searches of individuals.

PHOENIX—The Arizona Attorney General’s Office today issued an opinion establishing guidelines for the implementation of two remaining provisions of the state’s 2010 racial profiling law, SB 1070.

PHOENIX—Kathy Brody has joined the ACLU of Arizona as the organization’s legal director. Brody comes to the ACLU from Osborn Maledon, P.A., where she was a partner in the firm’s litigation group.

PHOENIX--U.S. District Court Judge G. Murrary Snow today issued an order in the ACLU racial profiling class action lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio.

PHOENIX – Today, groups made public damning evidence, including expert testimony and video stills illustrating the deplorable and unconstitutional conditions detained individuals are subjected to in Border Patrol custody in the agency’s Tucson Sector.

PHOENIX — In a victory for women, a federal district court today officially closed a case that resulted in the repeal of an Arizona law aiming to restrict medication abortions.

PHOENIX — The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood today challenged an Arizona law (H.B. 2599, passed this year) that is designed to prevent low-income women from obtaining healthcare from their provider of choice.

PHOENIX – Today, a federal district court unsealed some of the photographs central to ongoing litigation challenging deplorable and unconstitutional conditions in Border Patrol detention facilities in the agency’s Tucson Sector.