Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Federal Agents Are Abducting Any DC Resident Who Appears Latino, ACLU Lawsuit Claims
Agents abducted one resident when he was on his way to dialysis treatment, according to the groups’ press release announcing the lawsuit. He was detained for over eight hours, without food or his medication.
Liz Theoharis, et al: The War on Trans People in the Age of Trump
This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise.
JULIA CONLEY: THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOW
“We’re more prepared than ever to block the disastrous Trump policies we know are coming,” said one climate group. As voters across the United States grappled on Wednesday with the … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: The Man on the Flying Trapeze
He was a gentle man because he knew he could kill someone.
Edgar Lee Masters: The Circuit Judge
I in life was the Circuit Judge, a maker of notches,
Deciding cases on the points the lawyers scored,
Not on the right of the matter.
Video: The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (full version)
Jeffery Robinson, the ACLU’s top racial justice expert, discusses the dark history of Confederate symbols across the country and outlines what we can do to learn from our past and combat systemic racism.
Alec Karakatsanis: Usual Cruelty
The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
Vera Eidelman: Will the US Supreme Court Protect the Right to Protest?
An officer sued DeRay Mckesson. The lawsuit, which should have been swiftly dismissed, now threatens the First Amendment rights of millions.
Video: Out of Chaos
When a judge handed me two life sentences, it felt like drinking a cup of fire.
Julia Paley: The End of Asylum?
Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta: The government sometimes detains and deports US citizens
More than 1,500 U.S. citizens spent time in immigration detention between 2007 and 2015. In many cases, they were deported.
Video: “Dear America” by Jose Bello
Two days after he read this poem at a TRUTH Act forum in Bakersfield, California, ICE arrested Jose Bello.
Naureen Shah: DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement
Government documents detail 8,488 cases of solitary confinement. In half the cases, solitary lasted longer than 15 days — the point at which some of its psychological harms may become irreversible and it can amount to torture.
Chrisse France: Ohio Lawmakers Ignored Us When They Banned Abortion. They Can’t Ignore Us in the Courtroom.
Every day at Preterm, women, pregnant people, and their loved ones walk through our doors needing compassion, empathy, support, and safe, affordable abortion care. They come to us because they know they will be cared for as whole people, without judgment or shame.
