Today, the Biden-Harris administration takes office.
Urgent action is needed in their first 100 days — and beyond — to protect and extend the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution.
Urgent action is needed in their first 100 days — and beyond — to protect and extend the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution.
President Biden and Vice President Harris must not only prioritize undoing the many harms of the previous administration, but work toward a vision of the country that heralds justice, fairness, and equality for all of us. That includes

The Biden-Harris administration has a mandate from the electorate to fight against mass incarceration. They must take action on ending the war on drugs, granting mass clemency, and embracing a strong use of force standard for all police departments. https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/bold-and-visionary-a-criminal-justice-to-do-list-for-the-new-administration/
Trump has been able to systematically undermine our immigration laws and principles of fundamental fairness because our immigration system has been broken for decades.
The new administration must undo past damage and fundamentally reimagine our immigration system.
The new administration must undo past damage and fundamentally reimagine our immigration system.
They can start by rescinding Trump-era immigration bans, ending programs that entangle state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, creating an inclusive pathway to citizenship and ensuring separated families are reunited here with legal status. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-moral-imperative-to-eliminate-the-historic-stain-of-family-separation/
The Biden administration must issue an executive order improving access to accurate gender markers on federal IDs and records, and undo policies from the previous administration including the transgender military ban and other attacks on trans people. https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/they-the-people-the-biden-administration-must-go-beyond-repealing-trumps-attacks-on-trans-rights/
Biden and Harris must make racial justice a top priority by supporting HR 40, end attacks on government-sponsored racial and gender equity trainings, and reinstate guidance addressing disparities in school discipline. https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/the-biden-administration-must-prioritize-reversing-trumps-damage-to-racial-justice-policy/
The new administration must take bold action to make reproductive health care, including abortion, accessible to all.
They must reverse dangerous Trump rules, including those that undermine the ACA's birth control benefit and have devastated Title X as well as refusal of care.
They must reverse dangerous Trump rules, including those that undermine the ACA's birth control benefit and have devastated Title X as well as refusal of care.
Additionally, the Biden-Harris administration must expand access to abortion by ensuring safe access to medication abortion, enacting a nationwide safeguard against state restrictions, and making the Hyde amendment history once and for all. https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/president-elect-bidens-reproductive-freedom-to-do-list/
The Biden-Harris administration must make it a top priority to push forward an agenda that will protect our privacy and ensure that every person in this country has equal access to a free and open internet.
The new administration should take action to ban the federal use of facial recognition technology, support federal comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, expand access to broadband internet access services and restore net neutrality rules.
The new administration must ensure all eligible voters have uninhibited access to the ballot, and ensure everyone is counted in the Census. https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/president-elect-bidens-voting-rights-to-do-list/