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In the case of the praying football coach, both sides invoke religious freedom 22 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 2999
FIRE calls on Florida institutions and faculty to push back against unconstitutional law 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1346
Feds will return more than $1 mil in marijuana money that California cops stole from armored cars. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1455
When a Witness Recants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 11 1643
Across the Desk - S5:E13 (Oklahoma SB612 - Full Ban On Abortion) 0 Across-the-Desk Apr 2022 Apr 2022 2 1250
Missouri's parole system has sent thousands back to prison for minor violations. Terrell Robinson is 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 1370
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Free speech is a fundamental U.Va. value 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 0 1349
Florida Sued by Activists, Students, Parents, and Teachers Over LGBT School Censorship Bill 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1344
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita folds over press access lawsuit 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 Apr 2022 1 1116
'Geofence warrant' unconstitutional, judge rules in Virginia 0 Eugene Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1403
Atheist Group Wins $90K Settlement; Student Bullied By Teacher For Sitting Out Pledge Of Allegiance 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 4 1756
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 2 1404
9th Circuit Says Arresting People For "Fuck The Cops" Chalk Writing Is Unconstitutional Retaliation 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 9 1692
Republicans won't be satisfied with overturning Roe 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1754
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 841
Ted Cruz and Mike Lee send AT&T a threatening letter demanding to know why OAN is being canceled. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 2157
Class-action lawsuit targets NYPD practice of secretly collecting DNA 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 10 1495
Controversy continues over YLS protest and police presence - Yale Daily News 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 0 1553
NJ Supreme Court: Report on top cop's racist comments must be released 1 Eugene Mar 2022 Mar 2022 6 1374
Watch Tower's misuse of copyright to suppress criticism 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1634
Cops Unaware They Were Filmed Breaking In - The FBI Warned Them 3 exboyfil Mar 2022 Mar 2022 14 3246
Dear RNC: we at the @CatoInstitute make no apology for our amicus brief in Al-Marri v. Spagone ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 12 2328
Joe Tom Easley, prominent gay rights activist, dies at 81 He was involved in the repeal of DADT. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 1332
Controversial sign spotted in Langley High School library 4 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1753
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order (EO) 9066. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 3 2006
Argentine Intelligence Agency locates 105,000 wiretaps illegally stored during Macri administration 0 peppertree Feb 2022 Feb 2022 0 1111
The right wing justices will continue to gut Americans' constitutional rights by shadow docket 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1514
Phil Harvey, who battled government over his sex-product business, dies at 83 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 12 1596
Is the legal standard for libel outdated? Sarah Palin could help answer. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 1772
Interview: Nadine Strossen, President Emeritus of the ACLU 0 no_hypocrisy Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 1155

Civil Liberties Continued...

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FIRE's @1AMorey wrote to Kentucky today with a reminder about the law. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1447
Lawyers accuse judge of literally copy-pasting a prosecutor's arguments 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1496
Lawsuit: Crackdown on Church Soup Kitchens Violates the First Amendment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 1508
January 30 was Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 1372
Opinion: Current weather: A blizzard of snowflakes in the red states 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 1343
Art Spiegelman sees the new ban of his book "Maus" as a "red alert" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 11 1864
(Alabama) Brookside police patrolled social media, threatening town's critics 0 Eugene Jan 2022 Jan 2022 2 1438
The right-wing threat to free speech 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1795
Judge rules for professors in University of Florida academic freedom case 1 Eugene Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1366
Judge: Baton Rouge Violated the First Amendment by Trying To Imprison a Professor for Sharing ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 17 1881
National Press Club Gives VOA Journalists its Prestigious Press Award 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 12 1624
DHS Agent Ray Lamb tried to shoot Kevin Byrd outside a bar one night. He pulled the trigger--but ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 17 1986
That's TWO cases in which people will get to learn about how you can be acquitted of something and.. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 1748
How to Fight Book Bans: A Tip Sheet for Students 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 7 1486
Good afternoon. The Biden Admin. has asked the Supreme Court to rule that federal agents cannot ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 2414
Argentina's Spygate: "If I could have a Gestapo to terminate all labor unions, I would" 0 peppertree Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1312
"[Robert] Reich has two ideas that he thinks don't undermine free speech. He's simply wrong." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 2 2380
You can take the Fifth while also denying you did anything wrong. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1739
Should "F**k Biden" flags be allowed on public display in neighborhoods? 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 2673
On this day, December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was enacted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 7 1433
Chicago expected to pay woman $2.9M over botched police raid 0 Eugene Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1346
On this date, December 11, 1725, George Mason was born. He conceived the Bill of Rights. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1531
The Supreme Court Is Ready to Make Taxpayers Fund Religious Schools 14 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 2657
"Cops are still taking more stuff from people than burglars do." 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 15 2295
A chilling story about the Party Apparatchiks who were installed on UF's board of trustees ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1822
Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri indicted on warrantless surveillance charges 4 peppertree Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1657
For Clarence Thomas, decades-long critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 Dec 2021 1 1792
Ian Fishback, Army officer and whistleblower against detainee abuse, dies at 42 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1740
Missouri attorney general accused of malpractice for fighting Kevin Strickland's release 2 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 12 1946
Donations pour in to help man wrongfully convicted in 1979 3 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 6 1641

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Argentine youth soccer player Lucas Gonzalez shot, killed by police 0 peppertree Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1607
She Tried To Report Sexual Harassment in Jail. After Her Suicide, the Guard Was Convicted of ... 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 Nov 2021 37 3280
June: Alabama removes toddler from Michigan family found with marijuana 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 Oct 2021 4 2141
Watchdog faults FBI for 'widespread' errors handling surveillance warrants 0 PoliticAverse Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 1617
A Florida Man was jailed over a bumper sticker. The cops just got qualified immunity. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 1 2221
Fed agent seizes $115K from a man at RDU Airport. The agent says he's going to launch ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 13 2302
FBI says fortune seized in Beverly Hills raid was criminals' loot. Owners say: Where's the proof? 10 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 33 4451
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police 1 Eugene Sep 2021 Sep 2021 6 1538
Kansas Highway Patrol seizes 1959 Corvette from innocent owner and now wants to destroy it 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 16 2971
Seriously: re- the legal issues re- the TX anti-abortion law 4 snot Sep 2021 Sep 2021 1 1672
Former Marine pulled over for following a truck too closely. Police took nearly $87,000 of his cash. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 22 2782
Oklahoma NAACP files suit challenging anti-protest law 0 Eugene Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1465
DOJ says a drug dog not alerting but seeming to almost alert because he's sniffing a lot can ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 Aug 2021 2 2314
Opinion: The rogue prosecutor who helped pass a law enabling rogue prosecutors 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2021 Aug 2021 2 2299
Disturbing review of Orange County, California sheriff's department finds serious abuses 0 Eugene Aug 2021 Aug 2021 13 1667
Qualified Immunity is an "ancient" doctrine that in its present form was invented by Antonin Scalia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 Aug 2021 4 1607
Argentina's d'Alessiogate: Marcelo d'Alessio convicted on attempted extortion charges 0 peppertree Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 1620
How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence 1 Eugene Aug 2021 Aug 2021 9 1611
Homeland Security warns of potential conspiracy theory-fueled violence in August 1 peppertree Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 2221
UVA punished student over 'speedbumps' remark about protesters 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 2244
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