ACLU of West Virginia

A Court has dismissed our request to stop the WV National Guard deployment to D.C. but also warned that any future deployments to states where governors haven't requested the Guard may be unlawful.

Troops should not be policing our communities. We'll continue to keep a close eye on this.

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Applications open! The fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate students, law students, and nontraditional students or citizen activists from historically marginalized communities that are underrepresented in West Virginia advocacy and policy-making spaces.
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Tens of thousands of West Virginians lack access to clean drinking water. We continue to call on the State to prioritize the needs of people in our state, not the wants of religious institutions, in future decision-making.

After Court declares that grant to Ohio religious school was unconstitutional, no funds to be spent on religious education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 26, 2025 ACLU-WV CONTACT: Billy Wolfe bwolfe@acluwv.org AHA CONTACT: Court Beyer cbeyer@americanhumanist.org

This is a win for church-state separation. The First Amendment isn't a suggestion; it's the law.

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The case challenging a $5 million WV Water Development Authority grant to an out-of-state religious school is coming to an end, with a Court declaring the original grant unconstitutional and the Authority agreeing that public funds will not be spent on religious education or advocacy.

The ACLU of West Virginia is aware of efforts made by a local college to intimidate protestors participating in an anti-ICE demonstration today off campus.

Volunteers will be on the ground in Bethany today and will be watching closely.

The Trump administration is removing exhibits that reference slavery from Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, according to news reports.

This government-mandated historical amnesia is the work of racist propagandists, not public servants.

NEW: A court denied a motion to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the state’s unlawful granting of vaccine exemptions.

We won’t stop saying it: The political whims of a governor don’t outweigh the law.

We applaud the Ohio County Board of Education for rejecting a proposal that would have allowed students to leave during school hours to undergo “biblical education” by an anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion religious organization.

The constitution is clear: Our public schools are not Sunday schools.

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Sending West Virginia troops to support President Trump’s attempt to sow fear in D.C. communities is unnecessary and inflammatory. It’s also an unlawful misuse of our state’s Guard members.

We’ll see the governor in court.

Militarization will not make the nation’s capital safer (crime is already at a 30-year low) and more police will not solve homelessness; they will only make the problem worse.

After the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain – which saw troops weaponized against U.S. citizens – legal battles shaped West Virginia’s laws to restrict governors’ abilities to deploy the Guard.

Deployments outside our borders can only be for specific, enumerated purposes — none of which exist here.

BREAKING: We won’t stand by while the governor sends vital National Guard resources out of state to participate in a political stunt by President Trump.

We just filed a lawsuit on behalf of WV Citizen Action Group to halt deployment of the Guard to Washington, D.C.

Along with Mountain State Justice, we have filed a new lawsuit to halt enforcement of the governor’s executive order on vaccine exemptions.

Our previous lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but we will keep making the case that governors do not legislate by decree.

BREAKING: We’ve reached a final agreement on behalf of our client, a Marshall University student whose legal status was unlawfully revoked by the Trump administration.

Under the agreement, the administration is reversing the actions it took against our client, S.V., and will not repeat them.

Listen to trans kids, not hateful propaganda • West Virginia Watch West Virginia has banned trans kids from accessing necessary medical care and will now force teachers to out them to their families

"My hope in writing 'American Teenager' was to illustrate what should already be self-evident: Trans kids are just kids, no different than any other kid ... deserving of the same respect afforded to everyone else on this planet."

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A Court has dismissed our lawsuit challenging Gov. Morrisey's vaccine executive order on a technicality that does not address the merits of our case.

Governors cannot be allowed to legislate by decree. We will continue to pursue this issue.

Author Of New Book Profiling Trans Teens Visiting Charleston This Month - West Virginia Public Broadcasting The ACLU and Plot Twist Books have invited journalist and author Nico Lang to the South Charleston Public Library on July 26. Lang recently wrote "American Teenager," a book following the lives of eig...

Join us with author Nico Lang at the South Charleston Public Library 1-3 p.m. this Saturday!

VICTORY: A court has ruled the WV Water Development Authority unconstitutionally granted funds to an out-of-state religious school.

We’ve said all along it's inappropriate for public infrastructure money to fund religious education and advocacy. This is a big win for church-state separation.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court announced it will hear our case challenging the state law banning trans students from participating in school sports.

Lower courts were right to block this discriminatory law and others like it, and we will continue to defend the freedom of all kids to play.

Breaking: Our case challenging a $5 million grant in water development funds to a “radically Catholic” school in Ohio can move forward.

Thousands in West Virginia lack clean water. Forcing them to fund this school’s religious mission with money meant for infrastructure is wholly inappropriate.

Defying Morrisey executive order, WV board of ed directs schools to follow existing vaccines law • West Virginia Watch School officials will instruct public schools to follow the state’s existing vaccine laws, going against Gov. Morrisey's executive order.

This is the correct move by the Board of Education. The Constitution doesn't allow the governor to ignore laws he doesn't like.

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Join us as we head to D.C. to meet with Sens Capito and Justice to tell them how important Medicaid is to our state.

Congress is moving on the "One Big Beautiful Bill" act, an ugly bill that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and deny coverage to some 65,000 West Virginians.

Congress: Save Medicaid Now Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

There’s no time to wait: Send a message to your Senators and tell them to protect Medicaid at all costs.

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As if gutting Medicaid wasn’t enough… • West Virginia Watch Republicans in Congress aren’t satisfied with just slashing Medicaid, so they are now looking at repealing large swaths of the Affordable Care Act.

Medicaid is a lifeline for people with disabilities. It's up to us to save it.

We just filed suit along with Mountain State Justice to stop enforcement of Governor Morrisey’s vaccine exemption order.

Governors do not rule by decree. We're suing to uphold the will of lawmakers.

BREAKING: A court will continue to block the Trump administration from re-terminating legal records allowing our client, Marshall grad student S.V., to live and work in the U.S.

S.V.’s records were restored last week after being unlawfully terminated.