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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

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|Date: June 19, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrow ...

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder ...

June 19, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill ...

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill.” The author argues, “Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong,” and th ...

June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begi ...

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begins “Deadfall,” a novel written by celebrity prosecutor Linda Fairstein. She continues: “I had s ...

June 17, 2019
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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

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|Date: June 15, 2019
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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) di ...

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan will return to his administration as “border czar,” a new post he described ...

June 15, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

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|Date: June 13, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outs ...

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outsize role in mass incarceration, but what can be done? Until the public knows what prosecutors a ...

June 13, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

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|Date: June 11, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) ...

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) — The ACLU Foundation of Northern California today filed a lawsuit against Fresno County's chie ...

June 11, 2019
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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

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|Date: June 09, 2019
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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sulliv ...

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sullivan, a professor in the law school, would no longer serve as faculty dean of Winthrop House, a r ...

June 09, 2019
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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

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|Date: June 07, 2019
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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)– ...

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)–Today, the ACLU of California and a diverse coalition of civil rights, racial justice, and digi ...

June 07, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

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|Date: June 06, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its ...

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its best when we pursued justice and stood up for victims of murder, rape, and other serious crime ...

June 06, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

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|Date: June 04, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr ...

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed that “Government power was used to spy on American citizens.” He went on to sa ...

June 04, 2019
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Federal Lawsuit Filed after Suffocation Death at Sacramento County Jail – Deputies and CHP to Blame, Claims Suit

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|Date: May 28, 2019
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Federal Lawsuit Filed after Suffocation Death at Sacramento County Jail – Deputies and CHP to Blame, Claims Suit

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies and Cali ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies and California Highway Patrol officers hogtied an unarmed man at the county jail and then, although the ...

May 28, 2019
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Court Says No to Trump Wall… for Now

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|Date: May 28, 2019
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Court Says No to Trump Wall… for Now

By Dror Ladin From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to ...

By Dror Ladin From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to build a wall along the southern border. He said “nobody builds walls better than me.” He said ...

May 28, 2019
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DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

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|Date: May 27, 2019
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DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

By Naureen Shah In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke with me ...

By Naureen Shah In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke with men living in solitary confinement. I listened closely to their stories of anguish, but I could n ...

May 27, 2019
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Death Penalty Could End Altogether in New England

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|Date: May 26, 2019
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Death Penalty Could End Altogether in New England

By Jeanne Hruska For over three decades in New Hampshire, there has been a rising call to repeal the deat ...

By Jeanne Hruska For over three decades in New Hampshire, there has been a rising call to repeal the death penalty. That call has, until recently, gone unanswered. In 2019 that could all change. Thoug ...

May 26, 2019
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Homeless File Civil Rights Lawsuit after ‘Heavy-Handed’ Stockton Blvd. Raid by Sacramento County Sheriff

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|Date: May 23, 2019
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Homeless File Civil Rights Lawsuit after ‘Heavy-Handed’ Stockton Blvd. Raid by Sacramento County Sheriff

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - In response to a “heavy-handed” raid at a h ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - In response to a “heavy-handed” raid at a homeless encampment along Stockton Boulevard earlier this month, Legal Services of Northern Cali ...

May 23, 2019
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Sacramento Sued for 84 Arrests at Police Brutality Protest

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|Date: May 23, 2019
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Sacramento Sued for 84 Arrests at Police Brutality Protest

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento – already ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento – already targeted with multiple wrongful death and excessive force lawsuits for the killing of civilian ...

May 23, 2019
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Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

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|Date: May 22, 2019
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Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions ...

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions by the arresting officer. It might have been far worse had it not been for the persistence of ...

May 22, 2019
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ACLU Sues ICE Contractor, Calls for Investigation of Abuse of Women Immigrants

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|Date: May 22, 2019
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ACLU Sues ICE Contractor, Calls for Investigation of Abuse of Women Immigrants

Women were shackled, forced to ride in a boiling, windowless van for hours (From Press Release) - The ACL ...

Women were shackled, forced to ride in a boiling, windowless van for hours (From Press Release) - The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and Goodwin Procter LLP today filed a lawsuit against ICE t ...

May 22, 2019
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Our Government Has Failed to Defend the Sixth Amendment

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|Date: May 20, 2019
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Our Government Has Failed to Defend the Sixth Amendment

By Kanya Bennett and Ezekiel Edwards On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal a ...

By Kanya Bennett and Ezekiel Edwards On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal and state governments’ disregard for protecting the right to counsel for people charged with cri ...

May 20, 2019
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Police Unions Should Never Undermine Constitutional Policing

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|Date: May 19, 2019
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Police Unions Should Never Undermine Constitutional Policing

By Paige Fernandez In 2017, the Seattle City Council adopted an ordinance establishing a number of progre ...

By Paige Fernandez In 2017, the Seattle City Council adopted an ordinance establishing a number of progressive police reforms aimed at strengthening community trust in police and ensuring police accou ...

May 19, 2019
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