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Last week I spoke at a rally at the Federal Communications Commission as its commissioners considered new rules regarding net neutrality – the premise that internet providers shouldn’t get to decide what...
Last week I spoke at a rally at the Federal Communications Commission as its commissioners considered new rules regarding net neutrality – the premise that internet providers shouldn’t get to decide what...
Read the article at The Daily Beast.
Today, abortion is...
Read the article at The Daily Beast.
Today, abortion is...
Marriage in Oregon and Pennsylvania. Respect for existing marriages in Utah. Plus a new marriage lawsuit in Montana. From coast to coast, and several places in between, the ACLU has been propelling the...
Marriage in Oregon and Pennsylvania. Respect for existing marriages in Utah. Plus a new marriage lawsuit in Montana. From coast to coast, and several places in between, the ACLU has been propelling the...
The tide is turning against U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE)'s policy of picking up our community members and locking them away without a hearing.
Coast to coast, federal courts are...
The tide is turning against U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE)'s policy of picking up our community members and locking them away without a hearing.
Coast to coast, federal courts are...
With the flurry of court decisions striking down marriage bans for same-sex couples around the country, you might've missed the story coming out of Pocatello, Idaho, but it's a biggie.
Voters- in a...
With the flurry of court decisions striking down marriage bans for same-sex couples around the country, you might've missed the story coming out of Pocatello, Idaho, but it's a biggie.
Voters- in a...
Yesterday a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled for the freedom to marry, and today the state's governor, Tom Corbett, announced that he won't appeal the judge's ruling.
That means that Pennsylvania...
Yesterday a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled for the freedom to marry, and today the state's governor, Tom Corbett, announced that he won't appeal the judge's ruling.
That means that Pennsylvania...