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California Senate OKs Constitutional Amendment to Officially Repeal Defunct 2008 Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriages

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|Date: July 26, 2023
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California Senate OKs Constitutional Amendment to Officially Repeal Defunct 2008 Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriages

By The Vanguard SACRAMENTO, CA – A proposed constitutional amendment to repeal a 2008 measure approved by ...

By The Vanguard SACRAMENTO, CA – A proposed constitutional amendment to repeal a 2008 measure approved by voters to ban the state from recognizing same-sex marriages was passed by the California Senat ...

July 26, 2023
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Unlike Other States, California Ex-Prisoners Left on Own – Prison to Homelessness Pipeline Real Thing

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|Date: July 21, 2023
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Unlike Other States, California Ex-Prisoners Left on Own – Prison to Homelessness Pipeline Real Thing

By The Vanguard Staff LONG BEACH, CA – A recently-released prisoner here, Alberto Perez, has bounced arou ...

By The Vanguard Staff LONG BEACH, CA – A recently-released prisoner here, Alberto Perez, has bounced around California prisons most of his adult life, and according to an NBC News report is proof of a ...

July 21, 2023
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More Bad News for Federal Prisoners Hidden Amid Flurry of SCOTUS Rulings

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|Date: July 10, 2023
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More Bad News for Federal Prisoners Hidden Amid Flurry of SCOTUS Rulings

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau WASHINGTON, DC – Legal commentators are drawing atte ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau WASHINGTON, DC – Legal commentators are drawing attention to a little-seen decision by the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of July amid a seeming flu ...

July 10, 2023
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ACLU Praises SCOTUS for Agreeing Not to Criminalize Immigrant Supportive Speech

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|Date: July 01, 2023
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ACLU Praises SCOTUS for Agreeing Not to Criminalize Immigrant Supportive Speech

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) strongly praised the sti ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) strongly praised the still-controversial U.S. Supreme Court for ruling this past week, as the ACLU noted, “the governme ...

July 01, 2023
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SCOTUS Kills GOP-Promoted State Legislature Theory Over Actual Votes

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|Date: June 29, 2023
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SCOTUS Kills GOP-Promoted State Legislature Theory Over Actual Votes

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling this week to reject what the AC ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling this week to reject what the ACLU calls a “misbegotten…radical theory is totally contrary to the bedrock principle of checks a ...

June 29, 2023
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ACLU Commends SCOTUS Ruling that Not All Threats Necessarily Criminal

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|Date: June 28, 2023
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ACLU Commends SCOTUS Ruling that Not All Threats Necessarily Criminal

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday true threats—not just words th ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday true threats—not just words that appear to be threatening—are necessary for criminal prosecution, in a ruling praised by the ...

June 28, 2023
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Judge Again Dismisses Fraternal Order of Police Suit over Police Misconduct Disclosures

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|Date: June 24, 2023
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Judge Again Dismisses Fraternal Order of Police Suit over Police Misconduct Disclosures

By The Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA, PA – For the third time in the past five years, the Court of Common P ...

By The Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA, PA – For the third time in the past five years, the Court of Common Pleas Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 over Distric ...

June 24, 2023
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Scientists, Judges, Physicians Join Plea to Free Autistic Texas Man on Death Row for Daughter’s Death

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|Date: June 20, 2023
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Scientists, Judges, Physicians Join Plea to Free Autistic Texas Man on Death Row for Daughter’s Death

By The Vanguard Staff AUSTIN, TX – Scientists, physicians, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, ...

By The Vanguard Staff AUSTIN, TX – Scientists, physicians, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, retired federal judges and innocence groups filed briefs this week supporting Robert Roberson, ...

June 20, 2023
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ACLU Calls SCOTUS Ruling Upholding Indian Child Welfare Act ‘Landmark Victory’

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|Date: June 16, 2023
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ACLU Calls SCOTUS Ruling Upholding Indian Child Welfare Act ‘Landmark Victory’

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – A “landmark victory for tribal sovereignty” was issued by the U.S. ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – A “landmark victory for tribal sovereignty” was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, according to the ACLU, “rejecting all the constitutional challenges to ...

June 16, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters in Alabama’s Congressional Map

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|Date: June 09, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters in Alabama’s Congressional Map

By Leslie Garcia WASHINGTON, DC - In the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday made a ...

By Leslie Garcia WASHINGTON, DC - In the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday made a historic decision by supporting Black voters who opposed Alabama's 2021 congressional map and a ...

June 09, 2023
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Innocence Project & Ethics Experts File Briefs Supporting OK Death Row Incarcerated Richard Glossip’s Innocence Case

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|Date: June 07, 2023
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Innocence Project & Ethics Experts File Briefs Supporting OK Death Row Incarcerated Richard Glossip’s Innocence Case

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Separate friend-of-the-court briefs were filed this week by the ...

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Separate friend-of-the-court briefs were filed this week by the Innocence Project and six legal scholars—they focus on legal ethics and the professional respo ...

June 07, 2023
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ACLU Applauds U.S. Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decisions Protecting Digital Free Speech

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|Date: May 19, 2023
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ACLU Applauds U.S. Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decisions Protecting Digital Free Speech

By Cheyenne Galloway WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday applauded the unanimou ...

By Cheyenne Galloway WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday applauded the unanimous decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases concerning digital free speech. The decision ...

May 19, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution for Glossip, Delaying May 18 Execution for Now

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|Date: May 08, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution for Glossip, Delaying May 18 Execution for Now

By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC - Late this past Friday, the attorneys for Richard Glossip, who was sche ...

By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC - Late this past Friday, the attorneys for Richard Glossip, who was scheduled to be executed by the state of Oklahoma on May 18, filed a new petition for writ of certi ...

May 08, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Administrative Stay, Preserving Access to Abortion Medicine

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|Date: April 17, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Administrative Stay, Preserving Access to Abortion Medicine

By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC - The ACLU applauded the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday administrative s ...

By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC - The ACLU applauded the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday administrative stay of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had “severely restricted” the use of mife ...

April 17, 2023
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Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

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|Date: March 03, 2023
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Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

By Roni Ayalon and Brinda Kalita WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Supreme Court this week unexpectedly ruled in ...

By Roni Ayalon and Brinda Kalita WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Supreme Court this week unexpectedly ruled in favor of John Cruz, a man on death row in the state of Arizona, allowing him to be resentenced ...

March 03, 2023
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SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

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|Date: January 19, 2023
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SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Supreme Court reversed the decision on a re-trial of a Texas ...

By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Supreme Court reversed the decision on a re-trial of a Texas death row prisoner this past week, vacating the judgment of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...

January 19, 2023
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Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

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|Date: December 17, 2022
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Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

By Kevin Barragan NEW ORLEANS, LA - An amicus brief filed here this week in the Fifth Federal Appeals Co ...

By Kevin Barragan NEW ORLEANS, LA - An amicus brief filed here this week in the Fifth Federal Appeals Court argued, “when police officers wrongfully arrest an independent journalist in violation of t ...

December 17, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

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|Date: December 02, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critic ...

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critical of the execution, after 17 years on death row, of Kevin Johnson who was executed Tuesday nig ...

December 02, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

Posted by Leslie Acevedo
|Date: November 16, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Pen ...

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty asked the public to join them in a demonstration in protest of the scheduled execution of ...

November 16, 2022
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Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

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|Date: October 17, 2022
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Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court last week strongly quest ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court last week strongly questioned the court’s decision to deny review in the case of Andre Thomas, a “Black man sentenced t ...

October 17, 2022
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