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On Oct. 3, the ACLU will be back in the Supreme Court to argue Jennings v. Rodriguez, a case that will decide the fate of thousands of men and women who are languishing in immigration prisons across the country. At issue is the federal government’s practice of locking up immigrants for years without the basic due process of a hearing to determine if their imprisonment is justified. People fighting deportation can be detained indefinitely

On Oct. 3, the ACLU will be back in the Supreme Court to argue Jennings v. Rodriguez, a case that will decide the fate of thousands of men and women who are languishing in immigration prisons across the country. At issue is the federal government’s practice of locking up immigrants for years without the basic due process of a hearing to determine if their imprisonment is justified. People fighting deportation can be detained indefinitely

Muslims, people of color, LGBT people, dissidents, and immigrants have ample reasons to worry about our rights and freedoms under the Trump administration. But we don’t have to wait for the federal government to change hands to bolster our local defenses. Advocates and activists in Boston are doing just that, by calling on the Boston Police Department to distanc

If Donald Trump is not a white supremacist, his actions and words show a great deal of comfort with the values of white supremacy.He did not want Blacks living in his buildings or handling his money. His comparison of the Washington monument to confederate monuments built to honor people who killed American soldiers for the right to own other human beings shows an ignorance of and an unwillingness to deal with the truth about America’s past and current history of racism. His encouragement 

Donald Trump is obsessed with proving that voter fraud is a huge problem in the United States, not only to justify his false claim that he won the popular vote but also, and more importantly, to legitimize an attack on voting rights. To do this, Trump has turned to Kris Kobach, Kansas’s secretary of state and a longtime opponent of voting right

This piece was originally published at InsideSources.com.  Colin Kaepernick has not been involved in “off-field” scandals, has committed no crime, and h

The Trump administration is reportedly poised to kill more people in more countries around the world, from Nigeria to the Philippines.

Media outlets are reporting that the U.S. military is currently detaining an American citizen captured allegedly fighting on behalf of ISIS in Syria. The Trump administration has not released the citizen’s name or location, nor has it indicated whether the suspect will face criminal charges in federal court or be subjected to continued military detention. But the right choice here is plain: It would be a grave error for the administration to resurrect the failed and illegal

In its aggressive campaign to roll back efforts advanced in recent years to close the gender wage gap, the Trump administration now is politicizing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency that was created more than 50 years ago by Congress to enforce the nation’s laws against discrimination in employment.  On Wednesday, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)