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Published on December 23, 2020 - 21:49 GMT

Arkansas Politicians’ Relentless Push to End Abortion Access, and Humiliate and Shame Abortion Patients

This week, the ACLU is back in court working to protect the constitutional right to abortion in Arkansas. In 2017, the state legislature passed four anti-abortion laws to severely restrict access to abortion. If allowed to take effect, these laws would ban …

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Published on December 23, 2020 - 18:57 GMT

A Tale of Two Body Camera Videos

Over the past month, two high-profile incidents reaffirmed why police body cameras cannot serve as a police transparency and accountability tool as long as state law empowers the police to determine what footage the public gets to see. As we have said time …

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Published on December 22, 2020 - 22:15 GMT

A Deportation Moratorium, What Comes Next for Biden?

This blog is the eighth in a series outlining a reimagined, just, and humane immigration system for the United States. The past four years proved that the Biden-Harris administration must be bold and focused on overhauling the immigration system. The …

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Published on December 22, 2020 - 22:15 GMT

The FBI is Secretly Breaking Into Encrypted Devices. We’re Suing.

The FBI is secretly breaking the encryption that secures our cell phones and laptops from identity thieves, hackers, and abusive governments, and it refuses to even acknowledge that it has information about these efforts — even though some details have …

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Published on December 21, 2020 - 18:44 GMT

CBP’s Plan to Expand Face Surveillance at Airports is a Civil Liberties Disaster in the Making

Over the last couple years, it’s become increasingly clear that facial recognition technology doesn’t work well, and would be a civil liberties and privacy nightmare even if it did. But that’s not stopping the Trump administration from moving forward with …

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Published on December 18, 2020 - 22:47 GMT

President-Elect Biden’s Voting Rights To-Do List

President Trump has assailed the right to vote during his entire time in the Oval Office. Trump’s term was bookended with baseless claims of voter fraud, an unoriginal yet effective trope that has been used throughout our country’s history to erect …

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Published on December 18, 2020 - 21:42 GMT

The Winner of the 2020 Election: Drug Legalization

The 2020 election was notable for many reasons, but one winner really stood out: drug legalization. Five states legalized either medicinal or adult use of marijuana. Oregon and went even further, becoming the first state to decriminalize the personal use …

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Published on December 17, 2020 - 17:30 GMT

They The People: The Biden Administration Must go Beyond Repealing Trump’s Attacks on Trans Rights

The federal government has not been kind to transgender people over the last four years. Trans students were put at risk when the Department of Education withdrew critical guidance explaining how schools must protect transgender students. Trans people …

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Published on December 15, 2020 - 21:31 GMT

Biden Can End the Mass Detention of Immigrants

This piece was originally published in Washington Post The administration of President-elect Joe Biden must do more than reverse the cruel immigration policies of the Trump administration. While the Trump administration’s policies have been particularly …

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Published on December 14, 2020 - 17:15 GMT

A Middle Finger Cost Me My Livelihood as a Woman Athlete

It took a split second for my whole world to come crashing down. My teammates on the University of Connecticut’s women’s soccer team were jumping and screaming and hugging each other. We had just won a championship game. It was one of the happiest moments …

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Published on December 12, 2020 - 03:12 GMT

What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing

In the middle of the 2020 pandemic, America was shaken by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the protests that erupted in the aftermath. But the disturbing trends we see today in police violence are the same patterns we’ve seen over the …

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Published on December 11, 2020 - 18:12 GMT

Glennon Doyle on Telling Loved Ones Hard Truths

On our podcast, At Liberty, we learn a lot about history, civil rights and civil liberties issues, and how we can use legal advocacy to move the needle. This week, we spent time talking about how we can best share that knowledge with others, especially the …

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Published on December 11, 2020 - 14:50 GMT

Biden Must Restore Citizenship for Black and Brown People

President Trump’s relentless destruction of our immigration system is well documented. However, the myriad ways in which he attacked and targeted Black and Brown people seeking immigration benefits or citizenship, and even U.S. citizens is less discussed. …

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Published on December 10, 2020 - 21:49 GMT

The Biden Administration’s Disability Rights To-Do List

People with disabilities face enormous barriers in the United States today — from a pandemic that is killing disabled people, especially those in institutions, at staggering rates; to schools that too often fail, traumatize, and criminalize students with …

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Published on December 9, 2020 - 18:54 GMT

Biden Must Remove Border Patrol from Border Communities to Restore Civil Rights and Liberties

The approximately 15 million residents of the Southwest border region live under a massive federal police presence and extensive surveillance: the ever-present hum of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopters overhead; residents’ information …

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Published on December 8, 2020 - 21:36 GMT

The Biden Administration’s Religious Freedom To-Do List: Recommitting to Religious Liberty for All.

Over the last four years, the Trump administration has embraced a distorted view of religious freedom that is rooted in bigotry against minority faiths and atheists and promotes an official preference for Christianity. They’ve targeted Muslims for no …

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Published on December 7, 2020 - 22:12 GMT

The Biden Administration Must Prioritize Reversing Trump’s Damage to Racial Justice Policy

In the last four years, the Trump administration has aggressively dismantled federal protections that ensure equal treatment against racial discrimination, amplified racist rhetoric, and explicitly targeted communities of color with harmful executive …

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Published on December 7, 2020 - 20:04 GMT

Bold and Visionary: A Criminal Justice To-Do List for the New Administration

Millions of people took to the streets this year demanding racial justice and an end to racism in policing and the criminal legal system more broadly. On Election Day, voters provided their own stamp of approval by passing ballot measures in red and blue …

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Published on December 7, 2020 - 20:04 GMT

The First Amendment Fight Against the WeChat Ban

Imagine waking up one day, unlocking your phone, and realizing that you could no longer send or receive messages through your favorite app. Or make or receive calls. Or scroll through your social media feed. Imagine that all of these functions were rolled …

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Published on December 7, 2020 - 17:19 GMT

We’ve Had Enough Death in 2020. Why Add More?

I was in the middle of reciting Ya Seen, the 36th chapter of the Quran, when the executioner signaled to me that was enough. It was time to kill Orlando Hall. Across a strip of tape dividing us, Orlando received a shot of lethal injection before I could …

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