Press Releases

ACLU-NH Sends Letter to Acting U.S. Attorney Blasting Trump Administration Threats Against State and Local Officials

The Department of Justice’s January 21, 2025 memo threatening local officials with criminal prosecution for refusing to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is legally baseless and harmful to our communities.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order    

Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over its executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.  
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU-NH Statement on 2024 Election Results

For 105 years nationwide and 56 years in New Hampshire, the ACLU has been a fearless defender of our constitutional freedoms and has a long record of fighting politicians’ abuses of power - and we are not stopping now. 

ACLU, voting rights groups, and voters file federal lawsuit challenging unconstitutional New Hampshire voting law

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy — and laws like this, which create unconstitutional roadblocks to voting and which could stop thousands of eligible voters from participating in an election, have no place in our state.
Issue Areas: Voting Rights

ACLU-NH Statement on Signing of Bill Attacking Voting Rights

Governor Sununu signed HB 1569, a bill that would create needless barriers to vote.
Issue Areas: Voting Rights

Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Transgender Sports Ban Against New Hampshire Students

Ruling allows high school students Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle to participate on their teams with their friends and classmates while their case challenging HB 1205 proceeds
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

NH Supreme Court Dismisses Case that Would Stifle Free Speech, Affirms Protections For Political Speech

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.
Issue Areas: First Amendment

NH Supreme Court Upholds Manchester School District Policy Supporting Transgender Students and Student Privacy

The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling upholding a Manchester school district policy in support of transgender students, which includes referring to students by their requested names and pronouns and maintaining student privacy when appropriate.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

Students Challenge New Hampshire Law Excluding Transgender Girls from School Sports

Today, the families of two New Hampshire public high school students filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law, HB 1205, which categorically bans all transgender girls in grades 5-12 from participating in school sports.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights