NEW YORK — The U.S. Supreme Court today vacated a lower court ruling that the American Civil Liberties Union had appealed in a First Amendment case about a Black Lives Matter protest.

NEW ORLEANS – Amid ongoing protests against the killing of Trayford Pellerin by police, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana urged the House of Representatives to censure U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins for comments threatening violence against protesters.

NEW ORLEANS – Alanah Odoms Hebert, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, made the following statement about investigators’ initial decision to release Jace Boyd, a white man who admitted to fatally shooting Danny Buckley, a Black panhandler, outside a Louisiana Trader Joe’s.

LAFAYETTE – The ACLU of Louisiana released the following statement regarding the fatal shooting of a Black man by Lafayette police officers on Friday night.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana condemned the Louisiana Supreme Court’s refusal to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago.