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It was 50 years ago today that the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v Virginia that the Racial Integrity Act, which banned interracial marriage, was an instrument of white supremacy and violated the Constitution.The court’s unanimous decision came nearly 10 years after Mildred Jeter, a black and Native American woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, traveled to Washington D.C. because they couldn’t ... Read More

The CA Assembly failed to approve AB 42, a bill to reform California’s money bail system. The defeat came on the heels of the Senate’s bipartisan approval of an identical measure, SB 10, which now heads to the Assembly for consideration.

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The California Senate approved SB 10, a bill to reform and modernize California’s money bail system, on a bipartisan 25-11 vote. An identical bail reform bill, AB 42, is expected to be voted on by the Assembly later this week. 

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently referred to opponents of vouchers as “flat Earthers” who have “chilled creativity” in the education system.

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ICE obtained a warrant to track and locate the cell phone of an immigrant from El Salvador who the government believed to be removable from the country. This is the first evidence we’ve seen of ICE using a Stingray in a specific immigration enforcement operation, but we’ve known for some time that the agency possesses the technology.

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The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed suit against the DMV on behalf of several voting rights groups, demanding that voter registration opportunities meet legal requirements. 

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Every year on May 22, California celebrates Harvey Milk Day to mark the indelible impact Milk left on the world. Did you know that in the last year of his life, Milk tirelessly fought a virulently homophobic statewide initiative that looked very likely to pass and would have put California in the vanguard of a growing anti-gay movement?

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Jails have become America's top place to warehouse people living with mental health challenges. Far too many of those incarcerated are locked up for low-level offenses related to their health condition.

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Today, Color Of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Campaign for Smart Justice released a scathing national report exposing insurance corporations’ hand in creating an unnecessary and largely unaccountable $2 billion bail industry. 

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