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I’m Sorry, 2,342 Times

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|Date: June 30, 2018
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I’m Sorry, 2,342 Times

By Tracy Fauver Just a few weeks ago, a family was told that their children were being taken to get a bat ...

By Tracy Fauver Just a few weeks ago, a family was told that their children were being taken to get a bath. Those parents have yet to see their children since. Just a few weeks ago, a mother weaned he ...

June 30, 2018
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How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair

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|Date: June 30, 2018
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How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair

By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and overstayed you ...

By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and overstayed your visa. You felt American. You graduated from high school and college, and you fell in love wit ...

June 30, 2018
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Antwon Rose Jr. Is Another Unarmed Young Black Man Who Should Be Alive Today

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|Date: June 28, 2018
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Antwon Rose Jr. Is Another Unarmed Young Black Man Who Should Be Alive Today

By Carl Takei Antwon Rose Jr. was a Black 17-year-old honors student at Woodland Hills High School near P ...

By Carl Takei Antwon Rose Jr. was a Black 17-year-old honors student at Woodland Hills High School near Pittsburgh. He died last week because an East Pittsburgh police officer shot him three times fro ...

June 28, 2018
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The Alternative to Detaining Immigrant Families

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|Date: June 26, 2018
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The Alternative to Detaining Immigrant Families

By Ruthie Epstein With his hastily issued executive order on family separation on Wednesday, President Tr ...

By Ruthie Epstein With his hastily issued executive order on family separation on Wednesday, President Trump presented America with a false choice: If you don’t want me to tear infants from their moth ...

June 26, 2018
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The ACLU’s Longstanding Commitment to Defending Speech We Hate

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|Date: June 24, 2018
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The ACLU’s Longstanding Commitment to Defending Speech We Hate

By David Cole The ACLU, the nation’s oldest and largest civil liberties organization, has always had its ...

By David Cole The ACLU, the nation’s oldest and largest civil liberties organization, has always had its share of critics. Many condemned us for defending Nazis’ right to march in Skokie in the 1970s. ...

June 24, 2018
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AG Becerra: Forcibly Separating Children from Their Parents Is Inhumane and Unnecessary

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|Date: June 22, 2018
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AG Becerra: Forcibly Separating Children from Their Parents Is Inhumane and Unnecessary

(From Press Release) - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined New Mexico Attorney Genera ...

(From Press Release) - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined New Mexico Attorney General Hector H. Balderas and 19 attorneys general in demanding the U.S. Department of Justice immed ...

June 22, 2018
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Trump Backtracks on Family Separation

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|Date: June 21, 2018
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Trump Backtracks on Family Separation

On Wednesday, President Trump appeared to cave to political pressure, and signed an executive order to en ...

On Wednesday, President Trump appeared to cave to political pressure, and signed an executive order to end separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefi ...

June 21, 2018
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Landmark California Bill Will Save Lives and Bring Accountability to Policing

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|Date: June 20, 2018
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Landmark California Bill Will Save Lives and Bring Accountability to Policing

Committee advances AB 931, a bill that will change California’s deadly use of force standard and prevent ...

Committee advances AB 931, a bill that will change California’s deadly use of force standard and prevent unnecessary police killings (From Press Release) — Today, the California Senate Committee on P ...

June 20, 2018
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How Police Can Stop Being Weaponized by Bias-Motivated 911 Calls

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|Date: June 19, 2018
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How Police Can Stop Being Weaponized by Bias-Motivated 911 Calls

By Carl Takei Too often, law enforcement lets itself be hijacked by a biased call to 911 — usually a call ...

By Carl Takei Too often, law enforcement lets itself be hijacked by a biased call to 911 — usually a caller reporting a “suspicious person” who is actually just Black. In response to a spate of well-p ...

June 19, 2018
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What Life Without Parole Means: Sentenced to Die in Prison

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|Date: June 18, 2018
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What Life Without Parole Means: Sentenced to Die in Prison

By Jennifer Turner I first met Alice Marie Johnson in April 2013. Seeking to tell the stories of the “liv ...

By Jennifer Turner I first met Alice Marie Johnson in April 2013. Seeking to tell the stories of the “living dead,” or the over 3,200 people serving life sentences without parole for nonviolent offens ...

June 18, 2018
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One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus

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|Date: June 17, 2018
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One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus

By Mitra Ebadolahi On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire Flower ...

By Mitra Ebadolahi On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire Flower Beauty Company, was riding a Greyhound bus from Bakersfield, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. A ...

June 17, 2018
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People in Jail Deserve Effective Drug Treatment, not Forced Withdrawal

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|Date: June 16, 2018
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People in Jail Deserve Effective Drug Treatment, not Forced Withdrawal

By Amy Roe Nearly 30 years ago, when he was 18 years old, Sy Eubanks had surgery for a knee injury he got ...

By Amy Roe Nearly 30 years ago, when he was 18 years old, Sy Eubanks had surgery for a knee injury he got while competing on his high school’s wrestling team. His doctor prescribed him opioid painkill ...

June 16, 2018
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In Denial on the Family Separation Issue

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|Date: June 15, 2018
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In Denial on the Family Separation Issue

By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and Borde ...

By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan set out to clarify CBP’s systematic practice of separ ...

June 15, 2018
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California, Say Her Name

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|Date: June 14, 2018
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California, Say Her Name

By Novella Coleman As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for p ...

By Novella Coleman As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for police reform, countless stories of Black women and girls subjected to excessive force and polic ...

June 14, 2018
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ICE’s Military-Style Raid Leaves Immigrant Communities Terrorized

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|Date: June 13, 2018
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ICE’s Military-Style Raid Leaves Immigrant Communities Terrorized

By Veronica Isabel Dahlberg At 7 a.m. on June 5, a man walked into Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky, Ohi ...

By Veronica Isabel Dahlberg At 7 a.m. on June 5, a man walked into Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky, Ohio. He carried with him a stack of donut boxes and announced a spur of the moment company meetin ...

June 13, 2018
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DOJ Spins on Family Separation

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|Date: June 12, 2018
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DOJ Spins on Family Separation

By Jenny Samuels In an interview on Tuesday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Attorney Ge ...

By Jenny Samuels In an interview on Tuesday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled down on his defense of the Trump administration’s practice of teari ...

June 12, 2018
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Bond Hearings in Suit by Bay Area Residents Stuck in Immigration Detention

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|Date: June 10, 2018
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Bond Hearings in Suit by Bay Area Residents Stuck in Immigration Detention

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction in a class action lawsu ...

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction in a class action lawsuit filed by two Bay Area fathers stuck in immigration detention and denied bond hearings. Plain ...

June 10, 2018
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Masterpiece Supreme Court Decision: The Bakery Wins the Battle but Loses the War

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|Date: June 05, 2018
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Masterpiece Supreme Court Decision: The Bakery Wins the Battle but Loses the War

By James Esseks In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that had ...

By James Esseks In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that had refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. It did so on grounds that are specific to ...

June 05, 2018
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The House Could Soon Give Jeff Sessions $50 Million to Wage the War on Drugs

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|Date: June 04, 2018
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The House Could Soon Give Jeff Sessions $50 Million to Wage the War on Drugs

By Kanya Bennett While the House was busy passing the divisive “empty gesture” known as the Protect and S ...

By Kanya Bennett While the House was busy passing the divisive “empty gesture” known as the Protect and Serve Act during Police Week, the Senate took up a bill that Attorney General Jeff Sessions desc ...

June 04, 2018
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CBP Fails to Discredit Report on Abuse of Immigrant Kids

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|Date: June 02, 2018
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CBP Fails to Discredit Report on Abuse of Immigrant Kids

By Mitra Ebadolahi Last week, the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project and University of Chicago Law’s Intern ...

By Mitra Ebadolahi Last week, the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project and University of Chicago Law’s International Human Rights Clinic published a report detailing child abuse by U.S. Customs and Border ...

June 02, 2018
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