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Gen Z students lead pro-Palestine demonstrations while their Boomer professors see parallels to past protest eras
Indiana University has cracked down on pro-Palestine student protestors. A baby boomer and Gen Z de…
Hannah Getahun
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A proposed law that would require people blogging about Ron DeSantis to register with the state is a 'clear violation of the First Amendment:' ACLU
If passed, the proposed legislation, S.B. 1316, will require all bloggers writing about DeSantis to…
Cheryl Teh
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ACLU hails first 'After-School Satan Club' meeting at Virginia elementary school 'a victory for free speech and religious liberty'
The club, sponsored by The Satanic Temple, was proposed as a club for non-Christian students in res…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Drones armed with Tasers are no way to combat school shootings, ACLU says
Axon, the manufacturer of Tasers, said this week it is developing a drone armed with stun guns, cla…
Charles R. Davis
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Amber Heard was found liable for defaming Johnny Depp in a Washington Post op-ed. She didn't write it — the ACLU did.
The ACLU and Washington Post were behind the sentences jurors believed defamed Johnny Depp, but Amb…
Jacob Shamsian,Ashley Collman
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ACLU says minor curfews in Milwaukee and Chicago could target people of color and 'escalate tensions' between police and homeless residents
"The fear is that people of color would likely bear the brunt of selective and biased enforcement o…
Rebecca Cohen
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Amber Heard says she never completed her pledged $7 million charity donations because Johnny Depp filed a $50 million lawsuit against her
Amber Heard said in 2016 that she would give the funds she received from her divorce settlement to …
Jacob Shamsian,Azmi Haroun
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ACLU lawyer testified that Amber Heard's op-ed on domestic violence was timed with the release of 'Aquaman'
The ACLU helped the actress produce the piece, which Johnny Depp says falsely accuses him of abuse.
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Amber Heard donated just $1.3 million of the $3.5 million she pledged to the ACLU from her Johnny Depp divorce settlement, and $500,000 of that likely came from Elon Musk, nonprofit says
The ACLU expected Amber Heard to pay the $3.5 million donation over 10 years, but she never filled …
Ashley Collman,Jacob Shamsian
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A veteran corrections officer in DC said coworkers repeatedly used gay slurs and accused him of having sex with inmates, ACLU lawsuit says
Sgt. Deon Jones said the harassment he suffered was so severe that he was diagnosed with post-traum…
Connor Perrett
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The mother of the 10-year-old Black girl who was arrested after drawing a picture in school says her daughter 'was not protected in any instance'
Tamara Taylor and her daughter left Hawaii following a school incident that ended up with her 10-ye…
Taylor Ardrey
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A 10-year-old Black girl was arrested at school in Hawaii after drawing a picture of her bully, ACLU says
"She didn't bring any weapons to school, she didn't make any explicit threats to anyone," the child…
Taylor Ardrey
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Iowa pays $5k each to BLM protestors who were banned from the state Capitol
The Iowa State Appeal Board voted to approve a settlement agreement that will pay five Black Lives …
Morgan Keith
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Giant inflatable rats used by labor unions are constitutionally protected free speech, labor board rules
The inflatable rat ranges in size from 12-25 feet. The Trump administration had argued its "red eye…
Charles Davis
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Inmates at Indiana prison kept in 'torture' conditions, ACLU lawsuits allege, including weeks of total darkness and exposure to live wires
The ACLU filed lawsuits alleging six men at the Miami Correctional Facility were shocked by live wi…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Florida prisons may violate policy by locking people in unsanitary shower stalls for hours on end
Prisoners say the stalls are often filthy, with feces, urine, black mold, and mice; one man said he…
Nicole Einbinder
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The ACLU is running a two-page NYT ad on Mother's Day urging the Biden administration to reunite migrant parents and children
Joe Biden promised to reunite separated families at the border. Today, there are still about 1,000 …
Yelena Dzhanova
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Cheerleader at the center of Supreme Court free speech case says she felt 'isolated' when her school punished her for cursing on Snapchat
"I felt like I couldn't express how I felt without getting in trouble," says Brandi Levy, who was s…
Jacob Shamsian
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Kids in cages: What family separation was, what happened to the children, and what the Biden administration can do today
The ACLU's Lee Gelernt sits down with Insider to discuss the Trump administration's family separati…
Charles Davis
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ICE fast-tracked the release of immigrants 'on their deathbeds' so that they wouldn't die under the agency's watch, per internal emails obtained by LA Times
Per the Los Angeles Times, the 16,000 documents it obtained highlight a pattern of ICE shifting res…