American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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BRCA1 & 2 at the Supreme Court

The ACLU challenged gene patents on BRCA1 & 2 genes, associated with breast and ovarian cancer. We're telling the Supreme Court that a corporation can't own our genes.

IRS Abuses Power in Targeting Tea Party

05/13/2013 – The extraordinary revelation this week that the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party groups for more aggressive enforcement highlights exactly why caution is needed in any ...

Tale of Two Marriages

05/13/2013 – This is the story of two couples; two couples who come out of the same post-war generation, and who built their lives around the same emotional core of love, commitment, and devotion to ...

Immigration Reform: Week One is Done

05/13/2013 – Only a few short weeks ago, the so-called Senate Gang of Eight – four Republicans and four Democrats committed to producing a bipartisan immigration reform bill – released a bill ...

VIDEO: Is Law Enforcement Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?

05/10/2013 – The FBI doesn't think it needs a warrant to read emails and other electronic communications – despite the fact that a federal court has ruled that doing so violates the Fourth Amendment. ...

Two Minutes in the Life of an Innocent Man Recently Freed from Death Row

05/10/2013 – After fifteen years on Louisiana's death row, Damon Thibodeaux was exonerated, the courts finally recognizing his innocence. He has moved to Minneapolis and is getting on with his life.