News & Commentary

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using mass location surveillance to target immigrants. And local law enforcement departments, including some in North Carolina are feeding their residents’ personal information to ICE, even when it violates local privacy laws or sanctuary policies.

Recent raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in North Carolina were a failed attempt to achieve by force what was soundly rejected at the ballot box last November: Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling in Timbs v. Indiana, holding for the first time that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause applies to state and local governments — not just federal authorities.

Sheriff Terry Johnson is known for egregious racial profiling. He just secured $2.8 million in funding to do ICE’s bidding.

North Carolina is the only state in the nation that won’t let people in same-sex dating relationships get a domestic violence protective order. We're fighting in court to end that unjust and unequal policy.

Lawmakers spent much of 2018 seeking to attack or diminish the civil rights and civil liberties that we all hold dear. But We the People fought back, working in courts, communities, and beyond to secure some important victories for justice, freedom, and equality. Here are 10 from 2018.

While officials, journalists, and the public work to get to the bottom of what exactly happened in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, one thing is clear: The illegal activity being alleged is not voter fraud. It is election tampering. A photo ID law would have done nothing to prevent it.