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Jul 9, 2014

The Hobby Lobby Stages of Grief: Stage 2, Anger

Have you recovered from last week’s brutal Hobby Lobby opinion...

By By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office

Have you recovered from last week’s brutal Hobby Lobby opinion...

By By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office

Jul 9, 2014

U.N. to Confront United States on Persistent Racial Discrimination

Imagine the government taking away your two children in a hearing that lasts less than 60 seconds.

Madonna Pappan and her husband, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, don’t have to...

By By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program

Imagine the government taking away your two children in a hearing that lasts less than 60 seconds.

Madonna Pappan and her husband, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, don’t have to...

By By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program

Jul 9, 2014

Children Shouldn’t Be Left Alone in Immigration Court

Eleven-year-old Luisa was too young to apply on her own for a visa to come from Guatemala to the United States where she hoped to be reunited with her mother. But since federal immigration authorities...

By By Sandra Hernandez, ACLU of Southern California

Jul 8, 2014

America Should Always Be a Refuge From Violence

This past weekend's Fourth of July holiday made me nostalgic for the Independence Day celebrations of my childhood.

My parents are immigrants from Iran, and the Fourth was a big deal. We would...

By By Layla Razavi, Regional Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU

This past weekend's Fourth of July holiday made me nostalgic for the Independence Day celebrations of my childhood.

My parents are immigrants from Iran, and the Fourth was a big deal. We would...

By By Layla Razavi, Regional Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU

Jul 7, 2014

What the Bears’ Brandon Marshall’s Struggles With Mental Illness Teach Us About the Criminal Justice System

In a recent article in ESPN the...

By By Ajmel Quereshi, Staff Counsel, ACLU

In a recent article in ESPN the...

By By Ajmel Quereshi, Staff Counsel, ACLU

Jul 7, 2014

Investigating the Imaginary Thought Police

Earlier this year, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, abruptly abandoned a survey of...

By By Sarah Harrison, Washington Legislative Office

Earlier this year, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, abruptly abandoned a survey of...

By By Sarah Harrison, Washington Legislative Office