The lawsuit challenges the Department of Education’s Feb. 14, 2025, Dear Colleague Letter, which threatens federal funding cuts for education institutions nationwide for engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts; and a 14-day window before “appropriate measures” would be taken.  

The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that ruled that a Union Leader op-ed published on June 18, 2021 by writer and activist Robert Azzi did not constitute defamation because it amounts to protected political opinion.

A federal court ruled today that New Hampshire’s classroom censorship law is unconstitutional after a broad coalition of educators and advocacy groups brought the challenge to the law.

The ACLU and ACLU of New Hampshire today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the NH Supreme Court, raising concerns around viewpoint discrimination that, if applied in this case, could lead to the chipping away of the First Amendment rights of everyone.

While the situation is still developing, we are highly concerned that police, many in riot gear, appear to have moved quickly and forcefully into protests at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College campuses. Use of police force against protestors should never be a first resort.

Criticize Department of Education suggestions of book banning, in letter to Commissioner Edelblut

The broad coalition of educators, advocacy groups, and law firms challenging the state’s ‘banned concepts’ law this week filed new court briefs asking for an official decision in the case to declare the law unconstitutional.

The U.S. District Court its latest decision in the lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s “banned concepts” law, allowing the challenge against the law to proceed.