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Imagine a life where every part of your day is defined, regimented, controlled by someone other than you. Where even basic decisions, like what to eat, where to go, or who to spend time with are denied you. For people with disabilities living in many residential facilities, this is the reality. Basic choices, from decisions about where to live to the opportunity to be intimate with your partner, are denied people with disabilities across the nation. Many Americans are aware of these sorts of problems and the resulting loss of freedom faced by people with di

Last Saturday, this organization marked a radical departure from how we have done things in the past. At 2,200 events around the country, some 200,000 people across the country joined the ACLU to learn how they can fight the Trump agenda. For the first time in our 97-year history, we are organizing a grassroots resistance to unconstitutional policies for now and into the future, no matter which party is in power. But even as we begin to build political power through grassroots organizing, the ACLU will continue to pride it

The federal courts have dealt two more blows to President Trump’s ongoing attempt to ban Muslims from entering the United States. The two rulings, issued yesterday in separate lawsuits in Hawaii and Maryland, made clear that the president’s second Muslim ban executive order is just as unconstitutional as the first. The first blow came yesterday from a federal court in Hawaii. Just hours before the travel ban was scheduled to go into

Last week, House leadership rushed its Obamacare repeal bill through two committees less than 48 hours after it became public, despite calls from Republicans and Democrats to slow the process down. Now we know why they were in such a rush. On Monday, the nonpartisan

Over the last two weeks, Americans have revisited the tragic details of the death of 22-year-old Kalief Browder. The documentary series “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” airs its third of six episodes tonight about Kalief, who spent three years in jail without ever being convicted of the crime with which he was charged. Kalief’s story matters. It matters for his family.

When the Obama administration put in place guidelines meant to restrain lethal drone and other killings abroad, we were concerned that they set too low a bar, and that even that low bar could easily be overturned. Now, our worst fears are coming to a head. According to a recent New York Times

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