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No matter how many studies have found that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare in the U.S., some public officials continue to tell Americans falsehoods about the state of our elections. But their untrue claims are, unfortunately, resonati

Watching the movie “Detroit” was like looking into a mirror reflecting the present.  For me, the story didn’t show how things have improved since 1967, it demonstrated how much remains the same 50 years later. The movie is about the killing of three unarmed teenagers at the Algiers Motel

Just ask Nora Ann Corder, who spent a whopping 54 days locked up in jail in Lexington County, South Carolina, simply because she could not afford to pay $1,320 in traffic fines and fees. A desperately poor woman, Ann was arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail only minutes after she arrived in court to fight an eviction action because she couldn’t make rent. Ann is a victim of Lexington County’s debtors’ prison. But in jail, she learned there was a way to

Can the government ban the text of the First Amendment itself on municipal transit ads because free speech is too “political” for public display? If this sounds like some ridiculous brain teaser, it should. But unfortunately it’s not. It’s a core claim in a laws

How free speech protections fuel civil rights movements. Milo Yiannopoulos trades on outrage. He is a pr

Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It was this shooting that woke this country up to the epidemic of police violence. We as a nation have watched dozens of fatal police shootings, often of unarmed boys and men

Imagine being arrested. You haven’t been convicted of a crime, but you are told you have to pay bail to be released. If you don’t have enough money to pay the full bail amount, you could pay a bail bondsman, who will keep 10 percent of your bail fee as profit. Either way, if you cannot afford to purchase your freedom, you stay in jail.But in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, it’s worse than that. Here Judge Trudy White has for years been assigning people to a for-profit company, Rehabilitation H

Within days of coming back to work as a Frontier Airlines pilot after having my first child, who was still nursing, I got an extremely painful breast infection. Despite doing my best to pump regularly between flights in airport bathrooms and at my hotel on overnight trips, I still got mastitis, and it was the sickest I’ve felt in my life. I was miserable from the pain and high fevers. Before returning to work, I had asked Frontier what resources were available for nursing p

The ACLU filed public records requests today in 10 states that have launched a legal attack on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The requests seek to uncover any coordination by state officials and members of the Trump administration to take down the DACA program. We’ve filed these requests because the Trump administration continues to speak out of both sides of its mou