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The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund has eyes on McDonald’s. The fund, which was set up last year to assist victims of sexual abuse with their legal fees, teamed up on Tuesday with the American Civil Liberties Union and labor group, Fight for $15, to file 23 new complaints against…
The disgraced lawyer who lost his mind over a few people speaking Spanish at a deli in New York would be in good company in Montana. A border patrol agent in Havre, Mont., claimed he did not racially profile two women when he stopped and questioned them for the sole…
The sheriff’s department in Madison County, Miss., has been systemically targeting Black residents to baseless searches and arresting them at disproportionate rates, according to a lawsuit. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the suit on Monday, citing years of racial discrimination at the hands of the sheriff’s department. Ten…
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear what has been considered a major case regarding transgender rights in schools. The court’s decision on Monday comes in light of the new administration’s reversal of an Obama-era guidance that stated public schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that aligns…
A Massachusetts sheriff proposed that inmates from his county jail would be the perfect candidates to build President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed wall an idea that has been likened to “modern-day slave labor.” Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, a Republican, said last week during his inaugural ceremony, “I can think of…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions has such a poor record on civil rights that, for the first time in U.S. Senate history, a sitting senator will testify against him Wednesday in his bid to become the nation’s next attorney general. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Monday said he felt compelled…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has a special message for president elect Donald Trump: its members are ready to fight. Should President-elect Donald Trump attempt to implement his unconstitutional campaign promises, we’ll see him in court. — ACLU National (@ACLU) November 9, 2016 The day after the election, ACLU…
A lawsuit has been filed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for not releasing information regarding surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters and activists. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at Case Western Reserve University School…
Law enforcement used social media to track activists and protesters during the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, according to a new report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Police received information from Geofeedia, a social media surveillance vendor that had special access to specific feeds on Facebook, Instagram…
Last week a temporary solution in court granted about 17,500 people the right to vote this Election Day thanks to the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the ACLU had been in a court battle over the state’s law requiring people…
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