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NDAA: Fight to End Indefinite Detention Goes to Senate
It was a scrappy week in Washington last week, as members of the House of Representatives took up votes on key military programs. Like last year, Guantánamo and the targeted killing program featured prominently.
By By Zak Newman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Net Neutrality Rally Rocks the FCC
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 you can see or say online.
By By Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Abortion is Safe. Let's Keep it Safe.
Read the article at The Daily Beast.
By By Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America & Louise Melling, Director, Center of Liberty; Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
The Freedom to Marry Breaking Out All Over!
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 movement forward. Here's a round-up of what we've accomplished this week (so far!):
By By James Esseks, Director, ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project
Coast to Coast, Federal Courts Say NO to Mandatory Lock-up of Immigrants
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.
By By Eunice Lee, Detention Attorney, ACLU, Immigrants' Rights Project
The Other LGBT Victory This Week - This Time In Idaho
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.
By By Leo Morales, Interim Executive Director, ACLU of Idaho
And Pennsylvania Makes Nineteen!
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.
By By James Esseks, Director, ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project
A Partial Victory For Judicial Transparency
In a partial victory for the public’s right to access and scrutinize court proceedings, a federal judge recently made public most of two previously sealed opinions authorizing gag orders on Twitter and Yahoo to prevent the companies from disclosing grand jury subpoenas demanding some of their subscribers’ records.
By By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
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