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82 Advocacy Groups Are Calling on Biden to End Federal Executions
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump
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ACLU, for First Time in 101-Year History, Elects Black Person as Its President
Deborah Archer, a law professor at New York University with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president
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Judge Refuses to Reinstate Rule for Dispensing Abortion Pill
A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate a rule that would require women to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Search Persists for Parents of 628 Kids Separated at Border
A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration
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The Parents of 666 Migrant Children Separated at the Border Are Still Missing: An ACLU Lawyer Describes the Lasting Trauma
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their migrant children have yet to be found. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the court challenge to the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, explains why it has been so difficult to reunite these families and how the separations have caused lasting damage.
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Detainees at a California ICE Facility Suffered A Major COVID-19 Outbreak: An ACLU Lawyer Explains Why You Should Care
A federal judge has ordered the release of some detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California following a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility and an ACLU lawsuit saying they were not being protected from the coronavirus. But ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham says the safety precautions in place now are still not strong enough to keep them safe.
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ACLU and Lawyers Sue to Free Ex-Trump Attorney Michael Cohen
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer has sued Attorney General William Barr and the Bureau of Prisons director, saying he’s being unjustly held behind bars to stop him from finishing a book that criticizes Trump
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Trump Administration Revokes Transgender Health Protection
The Trump administration has finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care
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ACLU Sues Betsy DeVos Over New Campus Sexual Assault Rules
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses, claiming that the changes would “inflict significant harm” on victims and “dramatically undermine” their civil rights, NBC News reports.
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Aimee Stephens, Trans Woman at Center of Supreme Court Case, Dies at 59
Aimee Stephens, the Detroit-area funeral home worker whose firing led to a Supreme Court case that could decide the employment rights of millions of transgender and gender-nonconforming people, died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which was working on her case. She was 59. Stephens had kidney disease for several years and required lengthy dialysis treatments. According to a GoFundMe...
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Black College Swimmer Sues Illinois Police Over False Arrest
Illinois police officers wrongfully arrested, detained and threatened to shoot a black college athlete while pointing a gun to his forehead at a rest stop as he traveled with the school’s swim team, a civil rights group contends in a lawsuit.
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Push to Stop Facial Recognition Software
75 Groups, including the ACLU, Form a Coalition to Stop the use of “Facial Recognition Technology in Chicago.
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Government Secrets: Why and How A Special Agent-Turned-Whistleblower Uncovered Controversial Border Surveillance Tactics
Special Agent Wesley Petonak, 34, was sitting at his desk in November 2018 when he came across a PowerPoint presentation file that alarmed him. A nine-year veteran at San Diego’s Homeland Security Investigations office, Petonak knew firsthand the importance of intelligence gathering for successful immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border. But the PowerPoint was different. Nine of the slides...
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ACLU Concerned About Surveillance Balloons Over Midwest
The South Dakota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says it’s concerned about a report that the U.S. military is using high-altitude balloons to conduct surveillance tests in six Midwestern states.
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Judge Weighs New US Policy Keeping Asylum Seekers Locked Up
Immigrant rights activists asked a U.S. judge Friday to block a new Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, instead of giving them a chance to be released on bond. Attorney General William Barr announced the policy in April as part of the administration’s efforts to deter a surge of...
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Tiffany Haddish Cancels Atlanta Show Over Abortion Law
Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has canceled her upcoming Atlanta performance because of Georgia’s new restrictive abortion law. News outlets report that the “Girls Trip” star sent a statement to ticketholders Saturday, saying she cannot “in good faith” perform in Georgia unless it withdraws the so-called heartbeat bill. Haddish had been scheduled to perform June 22 at the Fox Theatre.
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Michael B. Jordan Presents Central Park 5 With Courage Award
Michael B. Jordan told the men known as the Central Park Five Friday that he cannot watch footage of the new series “When They See Us” without getting emotional and feeling like as a young black man he too could have faced a similar ordeal.
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Social Media Surveillance by CPD Raises Ire of ACLU
The social media networks that consumers use to keep up with their family and friends has become a surveillance tool for the Chicago Police Department, and the ACLU says it wants that practice to stop immediately.
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CPD Faces Scrutiny Over Social Media Monitoring
The Chicago Police Department is facing scrutiny from the ACLU over its social media monitoring practices, but the department says the public has nothing to worry about. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has all the details.