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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch calls COVID-19 response "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in peacetime history"
In an eigh-page response to a Republican-led effort to keep in place Title 42, a restrictive immigr…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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At least 7 state legislatures are proposing 'book ban' legislation, prompting concern from civil liberty advocates
Insider identified nine bills in state legislatures across the country aimed at prohibiting certain…
Madison Hall
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Southwest Airlines lawyers ordered to complete religious-liberty training run by a conservative Christian legal group kicking off debate over religious free speech
A judge ordered three Southwest Airlines lawyers to attend training sessions with a conservative Ch…
Polly Thompson
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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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The Oath Keepers promised to defend liberty and ended up trying to overthrow American democracy
The Oath Keepers branded themselves as defenders of liberty. In the end, they tried to keep the los…
Charles R. Davis
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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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Kentucky man digs up 'insane' treasure trove of over 700 Civil War-era gold coins and they could be worth millions
A US coins expert said the discovery of 700 Civil War-era gold coins "cannot be overstated." The tr…
Alia Shoaib
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib on why she's rallying progressives to fight back against calls for sweeping new government surveillance powers after the Capitol attack
Rep. Tlaib spoke with Insider about why she's leading the charge to defend civil liberties amid cal…
Anthony L. Fisher
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Dozens of civil rights and civil liberties organizations call on Biden to immediately commute the sentences of inmates on federal death row
Biden is the first sitting US president to publicly oppose the death penalty. Now, more than 80 org…
Connor Perrett
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Portland becomes the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by government agencies and private entities in public spaces
Portland's ban goes further than any other city in the US and allows people to sue private companie…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The Supreme Court heard a case concerning LGBTQ rights and religious liberty about one week after Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench
The case represents a "legal supernova clash" between the rights of LGBTQ people and the First Amen…
Kelsey Vlamis
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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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Transgender woman at center of the Supreme Court case fighting for LGBTQ workplace rights has died at 59
Aimee Stephens' case was the first time the Supreme Court heard arguments for civil rights by a tra…
Lauren Frias
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America's obsession with secret societies is a mainstay of our democracy and it resurfaces whenever there's a renewed push for civil rights, the author of a new book says
Colin Dickey, author of "Under the Eye of Power," told Insider that belief in secret societies incr…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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A man unearthed 700 gold coins in a Kentucky cornfield. It could confirm a long-held theory about how Southerners protected their treasure during the Civil War.
A man recently found a treasure trove of more than 700 gold coins in a Kentucky cornfield. The coll…
Erin McDowell
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Black Lives Matter and the ACLU are suing the Trump administration for forcing peaceful protesters out of his way with tear gas before his church photo op
Civil rights groups say the removal of protesters in Washington, DC's Lafayette Square was a violat…
Sinéad Baker
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'Americans are right to be skeptical of this': Coronavirus contact tracing could threaten privacy, employment, and health resources say some experts
Lawmakers and experts across the country are concerned that the contact-tracing system is fraught w…
Isaac Scher
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US visa seekers will now have to submit their social media handles
Cracking down on the immigration further, the Trump government has introduced a new layer to the co…
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Western governments enter uncharted territory as they grapple with problem of harmful content on social media
In 2018 UN investigators concluded that the Myanmar military had for years used social media platfo…
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Alabama school board votes to remove names of Confederate leaders from 2 buildings and rename them after civil rights figures
"Our job is to make our spaces comfortable for our kids," Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent …