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California Marriage Ban Struck Down

08/04/2010 – In a landmark decision today, a federal judge ruled that Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that excluded same-sex couples from marriage in the state, violates the United ...

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CCR And ACLU Receive License From OFAC To Pursue Challenge To Targeted Killing

08/04/2010 – The ACLU and CCR today received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) allowing the groups to pursue their legal challenge to the ...

Court Blocks Key Sections of Arizona Racial Profiling Law

07/28/2010 – Ensuring that Arizona law enforcement will not be required to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are "unlawfully present" in the U.S., a federal ...

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Obama Administration In Danger Of Establishing "New Normal" With Worst Bush-Era Policies, Says ACLU

07/29/2010 – The Obama administration has repudiated some of the Bush administration's most egregious national security policies but is in danger of institutionalizing others permanently into law, ...

ACLU Seeks Records of FBI Racial, Ethnic Data Collection

07/27/2010 – The ACLU is asking FBI field offices in 29 states and Washington, D.C. to turn over records related to the agency's collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities. ...

The ACLU Celebrates 90 Years of Protecting Liberty

Ninety years ago, America was reeling from a post-World War I fear that the Communist Revolution that had taken place in Russia would spread to the United States. As is often the case ...