Today, Attorney General Sessions announced his intent to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, callously reneging on the government’s commitment to hundreds of thousands of American youth.
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The Trump administration settled with plaintiffs in the first legal challenge to the executive order, which barred travelers from certain majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
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As mobile iris-scanning apps and tools become available, racial profiling by law enforcement could lead to Latinos and people of color having their eyes scanned simply because they speak Spanish or have brown skin.
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In today's troublesome political climate, local police surveillance must be reined in.
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The ACLU today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banning transgender service members from continuing to serve in the military or receiving medically necessary health care, and banning men and women who are transgender from enlisting.
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It defies logic to arm local police with weapons of war — grenade launchers, high-caliber assault weapons, etc. — but that’s what the federal government has just decided to allow.
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President Trump has pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for deliberately violating a federal court order that prohibited illegal detentions based only on suspicions about immigration status.
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Several times since the horrible events of Charlottesville, people have asked me, "what gives you hope?" I have had to search past a few things to get to that answer.
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