First Amendment

Know your rights when it comes to protests, marches and demonstrations.

“The judge’s ruling is a decisive victory that the court saw through Butler’s attempt at silencing tenant advocacy through the guise of defamation.”

Know your rights as a public university student in Rhode Island.

We joined four other ACLU affiliates and the National ACLU to urge the federal appeals court to grant relief in this challenge to the Trump administration’s deportation policies that target pro-Palestinian students exercising their First Amendment rights. A lower court ruled those efforts unlawful.

This is the second case filed by a broad coalition of local governments and nonprofit organizations across the country — including Rhode Island-based nonprofits Crossroads Rhode Island and Youth Pride, Inc. — seeking to stop the Trump-Vance administration from creating unlawful and unreasonable restrictions for funding for proven solutions to homelessness, threatening to push hundreds of thousands of families onto the street as cold winter months arrive. This case was filed regarding the 2026 fiscal year notice of funding opportunities (NOFO). See NAEH v. HUD (case number: 1:25-cv-00636) for information about the other case challenging HUD’s NOFOs.