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Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics

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|Date: January 15, 2019
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Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics

William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed ...

William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed and Brian Tashman On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on William Bar ...

January 15, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

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|Date: January 13, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr adde ...

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr added to the zeitgeist of “tough-on-crime” policies when he issued the Bush administration’s “24 Re ...

January 13, 2019
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Trump Delivers Speech Full of Inaccuracies

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|Date: January 09, 2019
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Trump Delivers Speech Full of Inaccuracies

Border crossings are at some of the lowest levels in decades. Trump and his aides fabricate facts and spr ...

Border crossings are at some of the lowest levels in decades. Trump and his aides fabricate facts and spread misinformation in order to justify many of the president’s false claims about the border, e ...

January 09, 2019
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The Battle to Stop Family Separation

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|Date: January 07, 2019
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The Battle to Stop Family Separation

By Lee Gelernt In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with ...

By Lee Gelernt In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with CNN that the Trump administration was considering a national policy to separate parents from th ...

January 07, 2019
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Important Civil Rights Battles Were Won in the 115th Congress

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|Date: January 05, 2019
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Important Civil Rights Battles Were Won in the 115th Congress

By Brian Tashman The past two years have been challenging times, as we have witnessed attacks on our shar ...

By Brian Tashman The past two years have been challenging times, as we have witnessed attacks on our shared values and civil rights from the Trump White House and a Republican-dominated Congress. It c ...

January 05, 2019
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Speaking Up Against Sexual Violence Incurred Our Culture’s Wrath

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|Date: January 02, 2019
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Speaking Up Against Sexual Violence Incurred Our Culture’s Wrath

By Amber Heard I was exposed to abuse at a very young age. I knew certain things early on, without ever h ...

By Amber Heard I was exposed to abuse at a very young age. I knew certain things early on, without ever having to be told. I knew that men have the power — physically, socially and financially — and t ...

January 02, 2019
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Courts Consistently Brushed Back Trump’s Assaults on Immigrants in 2018

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|Date: December 30, 2018
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Courts Consistently Brushed Back Trump’s Assaults on Immigrants in 2018

By Lee Gelernt For immigrants, there’s no way to sugarcoat 2018. The Trump administration enacted a serie ...

By Lee Gelernt For immigrants, there’s no way to sugarcoat 2018. The Trump administration enacted a series of draconian policies targeting noncitizens, and the one that will most define the year — and ...

December 30, 2018
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The First Step Act Is a Small Step for Incarcerated Women

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|Date: December 29, 2018
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The First Step Act Is a Small Step for Incarcerated Women

By Anjana Samant The enactment of the First Step Act earlier this month will bring some much-needed chang ...

By Anjana Samant The enactment of the First Step Act earlier this month will bring some much-needed change to our criminal justice system. But the First Step Act remains just that, a first step — part ...

December 29, 2018
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The Death Penalty in 2018: A Punishment on the Decline

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|Date: December 23, 2018
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The Death Penalty in 2018: A Punishment on the Decline

By Anna Arceneaux An annual survey conducted by the Death Penalty Information Center shows a significant ...

By Anna Arceneaux An annual survey conducted by the Death Penalty Information Center shows a significant decline in 2018 in the use of the death penalty nationwide. This is as it should be — the natio ...

December 23, 2018
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Trump Administration Recommends Slashing Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color

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|Date: December 20, 2018
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Trump Administration Recommends Slashing Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color

By Sarah Hinger & Jennifer Bellamy On Tuesday, the Federal Commission on School Safety issued recomme ...

By Sarah Hinger & Jennifer Bellamy On Tuesday, the Federal Commission on School Safety issued recommendations that it claims will help makes schools safer following the mass shooting in Parkland, ...

December 20, 2018
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Bipartisan Sentencing Reductions Pass Overwhelmingly in the US Senate

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|Date: December 19, 2018
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Bipartisan Sentencing Reductions Pass Overwhelmingly in the US Senate

Real Criminal Justice Reform Happened Under Trump in a Bipartisan and Most Unlikely Fashion It may end up ...

Real Criminal Justice Reform Happened Under Trump in a Bipartisan and Most Unlikely Fashion It may end up being the only major bipartisan legislation passed in this term, but the Senate voted overwhel ...

December 19, 2018
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Addressing Police Brutality

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|Date: December 18, 2018
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Addressing Police Brutality

By Dillon Nettles E.J. Bradford. Chikesia Clemons. Ulysses Wilkerson. Sureshbhai Patel. Greg Gunn. These ...

By Dillon Nettles E.J. Bradford. Chikesia Clemons. Ulysses Wilkerson. Sureshbhai Patel. Greg Gunn. These are only a few of the names of those who have been in headlines after being brutalized or kille ...

December 18, 2018
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The Broken System of Civil Asset Forfeiture

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|Date: December 17, 2018
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The Broken System of Civil Asset Forfeiture

By Liza Weisberg I’ve spent the last year representing people in civil asset forfeiture cases across New ...

By Liza Weisberg I’ve spent the last year representing people in civil asset forfeiture cases across New Jersey. It looks nothing like justice. In theory, civil asset forfeiture empowers law enforceme ...

December 17, 2018
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The Right To Record the Police

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|Date: December 15, 2018
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The Right To Record the Police

By Carol Rose The First Amendment right to record the police is a critical check and balance for people l ...

By Carol Rose The First Amendment right to record the police is a critical check and balance for people living in a free, open, and democratic society. It promotes the free discussion of governmental ...

December 15, 2018
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Does the Second Amendment Protect Only White Gun Owners?

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|Date: December 11, 2018
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Does the Second Amendment Protect Only White Gun Owners?

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The most common refrain from gun rights supporters in the wake of mass ...

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The most common refrain from gun rights supporters in the wake of mass shootings or other gun violence is that the best response to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy ...

December 11, 2018
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Ending the Horror of Long-Term Solitary

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|Date: December 06, 2018
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Ending the Horror of Long-Term Solitary

By Rick Raemisch In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regularly used in ...

By Rick Raemisch In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regularly used in corrections. The problem is that it was not corrective at all. It was indiscriminate punishmen ...

December 06, 2018
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Legislation Introduced to Eliminate Copays for People Incarcerated in California Prisons

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|Date: December 04, 2018
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Legislation Introduced to Eliminate Copays for People Incarcerated in California Prisons

(From Press Release) - The ACLU of California, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and Initiate Jus ...

(From Press Release) - The ACLU of California, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and Initiate Justice announced their support for AB 45, new legislation introduced today by Assemblymember Mark ...

December 04, 2018
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School Sends Kid Home From First Grade Due to His Hair

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|Date: December 03, 2018
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School Sends Kid Home From First Grade Due to His Hair

By Clinton Stanley Six-year-olds never seem to run out of questions, and my son is no exception. But in A ...

By Clinton Stanley Six-year-olds never seem to run out of questions, and my son is no exception. But in August, CJ asked me a question that was harder than the rest: He wanted to know if there was som ...

December 03, 2018
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In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide

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|Date: December 01, 2018
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In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide

By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of ...

By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum through the ballot box: a budding, ...

December 01, 2018
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Weaponizing the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

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|Date: November 30, 2018
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Weaponizing the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

By Madhuri Grewal Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, b ...

By Madhuri Grewal Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an o ...

November 30, 2018
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