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Congress Gets Mixed Advice On Drone Regulations

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting m...

Judge Rejects Motion To Dismiss State Abortion Lawsuit

AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A federal judge said Wednesday that a challenge to Arkansas' new law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy can proceed...

ACLU Concerned About Bombing Suspect's Miranda Rights

AP | Posted 04.20.2013 | Politics

BOSTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union says it's concerned the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be questioned by investigators wit...

Jesus Portrait Taken Down In Ohio School

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 04.03.2013 | Religion

CINCINNATI -- A Jesus portrait that has hung in a southern Ohio school district since 1947 was taken down Wednesday, because of concerns about the pot...

Lawmakers Override Dem Gov's Veto On Controversial Religious Freedom Bill

AP | BEN FINLEY | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky lawmakers have voted to override the governor's veto of a bill intended to better protect legal claims of religious freedom...

Ryan J. Reilly

Small ACLU Team Fights Drone Secrecy

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- The Obama administration, in the face of harsh criticism from members of Congress, has recently promised more transparency surrounding the...

State Senate Approves Voter ID Bill

Reuters | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics

By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Ark. March 19 (Reuters) - The Arkansas state Senate approved a measure on Tuesday to require voters to sho...

Ryan J. Reilly

Court Finds It Not 'Plausible' That CIA Has No Role In Drone Strikes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court's decision that dismissed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the CIA, rulin...

Religious Freedom Bill Could Cause Trouble For Certain Groups

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 03.12.2013 | Politics

Human rights and civil liberties groups are up in arms over Kentucky's religious freedom bill, contending that the legislation could restrict the righ...

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DOJ: John Brennan Didn't Officially Disclose CIA Drones Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, didn't officially acknowledge the CIA'...

ACLU Seeks Removal Of Ohio School's Jesus Portrait

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 02.08.2013 | Religion

CINCINNATI -- A portrait of Jesus that hangs prominently in an entranceway at a rural Ohio public school is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and ...

Birth Control Battles Appear To Be Moving Toward Supreme Court

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 01.26.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul ap...

Report: State's School Discipline Disproportionately Harsh On Students

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 03.19.2013 | Home

JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even in...

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FBI GPS Tracking Memos Kept Secret

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann was sitting on a panel last February discussing the Supreme Court's recent decision that found inst...

Book Featuring Lesbian Couple Back On Utah School District's Shelves

AP | Posted 01.15.2013 | Home

SALT LAKE CITY -- A book about a lesbian couple raising children has returned to a Utah school district's library shelves, amid a lawsuit from the Ame...

Jesus Portrait In Public Ohio Middle School To Stay

Posted 01.10.2013 | Home

The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in Thursday as school officials in Jackson City, Ohio are ignoring the demands of an atheist group, decidin...

Judge Orders Trial In Contentious Abortions Case

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. -- Kansas' law that restricts private health insurance coverage for abortions will go to trial to resolve whether it poses a substantial...

Prison Guards Use Gang Violence 'To Gain Control Over' Inmates: Lawsuit

AP | REBECCA BOONE | Posted 11.14.2012 | Crime

BOISE, Idaho -- The ACLU of Idaho says Corrections Corporation of America appears to be violating a settlement reached with inmates in a so-called "Gl...

Utah School District Sued For Restricting Access To Book About Lesbian Family

Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit Tuessday against the Davis School District after officials told elementary sch...

Stories Move the Walls That Need to Be Moved

Wayne Maines | Posted 01.09.2013 | Gay Voices
Wayne Maines

My transgender daughter said recently that "stories move the walls that need to be moved." I hope that our Transgender Remembrance Day story will help others begin to "move the walls that need to be moved."

Human Rights Priorities for the Next U.S. President

David J. Kramer | Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics
David J. Kramer

The United States should review its relations with all authoritarian regimes to give human rights greater attention. While it may cooperate with them on counter-terrorism and other shared interests, it cannot turn a blind eye to the abuses these regimes commit.

Cop Had 'Long History Of Excessive Force' Before Killing Man Holding Baby

Reuters | Posted 11.24.2012 | Crime

By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The family of an Arizona man who was shot dead while holding his 7-month-old grandson b...

City Faces Lawsuit Over Rule To 'Silence' Free Speech

Reuters | Posted 11.13.2012 | Politics

* Rival church sought to pamphlet near Mormon temple * 'Free-speech' permits can limit time, participants By Jennifer Do...

Legal Voters Being Questioned By Gessler's Office

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.28.2012 | Denver

DENVER — U.S citizens are among those who received letters from Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler questioning their right to vote, the A...

The Republican "Small Government" Fraud

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.28.2012 | Politics
Lawrence Wittner

Just take a look at the platform that will emerge from the GOP national convention. There will be plenty of rhetoric about freedom and limited government. But the party's actual policies will reflect a very different agenda.