Press Releases
Nov 06, 2023
51品茶 Strongly Condemns Anti-Palestinian Immigration Bill
Group calls on lawmakers to reject harmful policy, support Temporary Protected Status for Palestinians as violence continues in Gaza
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Human Rights
Nov 03, 2023
51品茶 Calls on White House, U.S. Senate Leaders to Protect Asylum System from Attacks in Budget Negotiations
WASHINGTON 鈥� Today, Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the 51品茶, issued the following statement in response to emerging reports that the White Hou...
Nov 03, 2023
United Nations Human Rights Body Calls Out U.S. Failure to Comply with Civil and Political Rights Treaty
GENEVA 鈥� The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a scathing report today castigating the United States鈥� record on a wide range of issues, including Indigenous rights, ...
Issue Areas:
Human Rights
Nov 03, 2023
NYCLU Responds to Gov. Hochul Ordering Outside Review of CUNY Antidiscrimination Policies
ALBANY - In response to Governor Hochul's announcement this week of an independent review of CUNY policies and procedures on antisemitism and discrimination, the New York Civil Lib...
Nov 01, 2023
51品茶 Open Letter to Colleges and Universities: Reject Efforts to Restrict Constitutionally Protected Speech on Campuses
Organization Warns Against Investigations of Pro-Palestinian Student Groups For Speech On College Campuses
Nov 01, 2023
Tennessee Families and Doctors Urge Supreme Court to Block Ban on Essential Health Care for Transgender Youth
WASHINGTON 鈥� Transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers today asked the Supreme Court of the United States to block a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming m...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: L.W. v. Skrmetti/U.S. v. Skrmetti
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News & CommentaryAug 2025
Privacy & Technology
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I鈥檓 Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled By Concern Over Anti-immigrant Uses. Explore News & Commentary.I鈥檓 Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses
Policymakers are beginning to recognize that the boundaries between local surveillance and the Trump Administration are hard to maintain -
News & CommentaryAug 2025
Civil Liberties
Disability Rights
Congress Cuts Medicaid To Fund Ice: How H.r. 1 Harms Communities. Explore News & Commentary.Congress Cuts Medicaid to Fund ICE: How H.R. 1 Harms Communities
Congress voted to gut Medicaid and 鈥渄efund鈥� Planned Parenthood to fund President Trump鈥檚 anti-immigrant agenda. We won鈥檛 allow it. -
News & CommentaryAug 2025
Racial Justice
Privacy & Technology
Will Giant Companies Always Have A Monopoly On Top Ai Models?. Explore News & Commentary.Will Giant Companies Always Have a Monopoly on Top AI Models?
Part 2 of my dive into how likely LLMs are to either centralize or distribute power -
Washington, D.C.Aug 2025
Voting Rights
Bower V. Social Security Administration. Explore Case.Bower v. Social Security Administration
Representing itself and two journalists from Lawfare, the 51品茶 brought a lawsuit to enforce Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made to the Social Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regarding changes made to the SAVE program, which has been touted as being used by states in order to remove voters from the registration rolls. While the government made public statements about the SAVE program being updated, the details of those changes, such as the particular programs and databases that have been altered, the ways they have been altered, and the nature and extent of any use and sharing of individuals鈥� personal information by the federal agencies entrusted with that information, have all been kept secret.