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Apr 16, 2014

How Racial Bias Corrupts Juries

This piece originally appeared on Salon.

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By By Barry Scheck, Co-Director, The Innocence Project

This piece originally appeared on Salon.

Earlier...

By By Barry Scheck, Co-Director, The Innocence Project
Apr 15, 2014

NYPD Shutters Muslim Mapping Unit – But What About Other Tactics?

The New York Police Department is disbanding the unit that mapped New York’s Muslim communities, their places of worship, and businesses they frequent – based on nothing but their religious beliefs and...

By By Noa Yachot, Communications Strategist, ACLU

The New York Police Department is disbanding the unit that mapped New York’s Muslim communities, their places of worship, and businesses they frequent – based on nothing but their religious beliefs and...

By By Noa Yachot, Communications Strategist, ACLU
Apr 15, 2014

Congratulations! The Taxes You Just Paid Might Be On Their Way to a Private Prison

Ah, April 15th. Tax Day. 

When you pay taxes, you assume they'll be used to support education, health care, public transportation, and other programs that make your community stronger....

By By Hedy Weinberg, ACLU of Tennessee

Ah, April 15th. Tax Day. 

When you pay taxes, you assume they'll be used to support education, health care, public transportation, and other programs that make your community stronger....

By By Hedy Weinberg, ACLU of Tennessee
Apr 14, 2014

The FBI Derails the 9/11 Hearings at Guantánamo

The oft-delayed, secrecy-plagued 9/11 military commission hearings came to an abrupt halt today before the scheduled arguments surrounding the competency of defendant Ramzi bin al Shibh even began. Just...

By By Brett Max Kaufman, Legal Fellow, ACLU National Security Project

The oft-delayed, secrecy-plagued 9/11 military commission hearings came to an abrupt halt today before the scheduled arguments surrounding the competency of defendant Ramzi bin al Shibh even began. Just...

By By Brett Max Kaufman, Legal Fellow, ACLU National Security Project
Apr 14, 2014

Curious Cop Downloaded Hundreds of Private Prescription Records Because He Could

Free Speech and Pluralism

Today, the ACLU and ACLU of Utah filed an amicus brief in support of a...

By By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project

Today, the ACLU and ACLU of Utah filed an amicus brief in support of a...

By By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Apr 14, 2014

How a Father Gets Deported for a Traffic Violation

If you ask the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it doesn't deport parents whose most serious crime is a traffic offense. In fact, according to its statistics, ...

By By Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

If you ask the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it doesn't deport parents whose most serious crime is a traffic offense. In fact, according to its statistics, ...

By By Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU Washington Legislative Office