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May 9, 2014

DOJ Proposal on Law Enforcement Hacking Would Undermine Longstanding Check on Government Power

Free Speech and Pluralism

At the urging of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Courts’ Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure is considering whether to bless procedures that would allow law enforcement to hack into computers...

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

At the urging of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Courts’ Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure is considering whether to bless procedures that would allow law enforcement to hack into computers...

By By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
May 9, 2014

It's Time for Love to Win

There is a natural and sincere completeness to our family. Christy and I know that nothing is missing. We know that nothing is unintended.

Two moms plus one beautiful, bouncing baby girl is the...

By By Christy Berghoff & Victoria Kidd

There is a natural and sincere completeness to our family. Christy and I know that nothing is missing. We know that nothing is unintended.

Two moms plus one beautiful, bouncing baby girl is the...

By By Christy Berghoff & Victoria Kidd
May 9, 2014

"I should not have had to sue my employer to have a healthy pregnancy or keep breastfeeding"

As a mother of three children, working in the manufacturing industry, I am truly in the minority: I'm one of 30 women in our facility and the only one with small children. Still, I hardly thought that in...

By By Bobbi Bockoras

As a mother of three children, working in the manufacturing industry, I am truly in the minority: I'm one of 30 women in our facility and the only one with small children. Still, I hardly thought that in...

By By Bobbi Bockoras
May 9, 2014

Mary Frances Berry: 60 Years After Brown, "The students didn't fail us; we failed the students."

Within a minute or two of speaking with Mary Frances Berry, you first hear the crackle of enthusiasm and then you notice the matter-of-fact way she can describe something awful, like police intimidation in...

By By Matthew Harwood, Media Strategist, ACLU

Within a minute or two of speaking with Mary Frances Berry, you first hear the crackle of enthusiasm and then you notice the matter-of-fact way she can describe something awful, like police intimidation in...

By By Matthew Harwood, Media Strategist, ACLU
May 8, 2014

What the House is Really Doing on Immigration Today

No one knows when, or if, House leadership will take up immigration reform.

But House appropriators are already poised to ...

By By Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office

No one knows when, or if, House leadership will take up immigration reform.

But House appropriators are already poised to ...

By By Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office
May 5, 2014

Dear Senate, Demand to Read Drone Memos Before Voting on Barron Nomination

The ACLU wrote today to the full Senate membership urging senators to read key memos on the drone targeted killing program before voting on the nomination of David Barron to the First Circuit Court of...

By By Zak Newman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

The ACLU wrote today to the full Senate membership urging senators to read key memos on the drone targeted killing program before voting on the nomination of David Barron to the First Circuit Court of...

By By Zak Newman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office