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Legal Director

The Legal Director will lead and expand the ACLU legal program across North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, including developing and litigating high-impact cases and managing the legal department.
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Digital Driver’s Licenses Threaten to Create a “Great Internet Lockdown”

Two trends threaten the creation of a bureaucratic wall between Americans and the information they have a right to access
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What the First Amendment Really Protects

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers.
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President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House.

How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists

What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do.