The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and two of its chapters are suing to halt President Trump's attempt to expand "fast-track" deportations without a full hearing. Why it matters: The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.

While the organization became a bastion of resistance in 2017, it now faces a tougher fundraising, legal and political environment.

The Trump administration is pushing back against what it says is the "Left's resistance" after a legal challenge filed late Monday by the ACLU.

The ACLU seeks to prevent President Trump from bypassing the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to nearly everyone born in the United States

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is preparing the lawsuit in anticipation of Trump moving to end the practice enshrined in the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents.

An estimated 11.7 million people are living in the U.S. illegally, and ICE currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000.

A Seattle judge issued a 14-day restraining order in response to a lawsuit from states calling President Donald Trump’s effort unconstitutional.

Billionaire's estranged daughter has used rival social media platforms to attack Trump's anti-transgender executive order, and her dad's salute.

It is one of the first directives to be implemented after Trump signed a sweeping anti-trans executive order declaring only two sexes, male and female as assigned at birth.

"While we know this president will issue orders with real, dire consequences on people here and abroad, many of his declarations do not and cannot change the law but instead are designed to engender chaos and confusion,

Additionally, Trump rescinded two executive orders, both signed by President Biden, that lifted the ban on transgender service members, and attempted to address discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex individuals.