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The Most Conservative Principle in American Politics
"The right to vote is at the very foundation of our American system, and nothing must interfere with this very precious right."
– President Gerald Ford
By By Deborah J. Vagins, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
The American Public Gets It. President Obama Gets It. Why Doesn't Congress?
Like millions of Americans, President Obama doesn't think it makes a lot of sense to fire an employee or force her to take unpaid leave because she's six months pregnant and needs a stool to sit on while working the cash register.
By By Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office
Victory: No Fly List Process Ruled Unconstitutional
A secret government watchlist that traps innocent Americans in a Kafkaesque nightmare was dealt a major blow yesterday.
By By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project & Hugh Handeyside, Staff Attorney, ACLU, National Security Project
Ruling In Horrific LGBT Bullying Case Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Congress To Finally Pass SNDA
A 13-year-old boy named Jon Carmichael killed himself during spring break in 2010.
By By Joshua Block, LGBT Project
U.S. Admits Modern-Day Slavery Exists at Home
Some of America's most vulnerable workers are victims of modern-day slavery, and the government knows it. What's worse: These workers are protecting U.S. military and economic interests – but the U.S. isn't protecting them.
By By Jennifer Turner, Human Rights Researcher, Human Rights Program, ACLU
It's Time to End The Blame Game and Reform Immigration Policy
This piece was first published by the National Journal magazine on the Next America Perspectives page.
By By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Open the Drone Files
A federal appellate court's publication on Monday of the so-called "drone memo" finally allows the American public to evaluate the legal theories that were the basis for one of the Obama administration's most controversial acts – the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen.
By By Jameel Jaffer, ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of ACLU Center for Democracy
Open the Drone Files
A federal appellate court's publication on Monday of the so-called "drone memo" finally allows the American public to evaluate the legal theories that were the basis for one of the Obama administration's most controversial acts – the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen.
By By Jameel Jaffer, ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of ACLU Center for Democracy
We Want Internet Providers to Respond to Internet Demand, Not Shape It
The debate over network neutrality is misguided, Robert McMillan argues in Wired, because amid dismay over the FCC’s proposal to allow ISPs to sell “fast lanes” to companies, people don’t understand that giant internet companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix already enjoy preferential delivery of their bits to end-users. This takes place, he points out, through “peering connections,” in which giant web companies pipe data directly to ISPs on their own private connections rather than through the internet backbone, and through “content delivery networks,” or CDNs, which are servers run by web companies deep inside the bowels of the ISPs.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
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