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Faculty, students, labor groups and the American Civil Liberties Union say the harder line on demonstrations may be discriminatory.

Republican state lawmakers are already targeting trans people with discriminatory policies. A second-term Trump is likely to use the US government to launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights

Go after bribes and espionage, but leave mere speech alone.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system’s baning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone calls for broadcast

Participants in the unique program said the financial support helped, but symbolism of program was just as important, writes Josh Marcus

ProPublica obtained a recording of a call that the First Liberty Institute held with donors. [For full disclosure, I have spoken at several First Liberty events.] As readers of this blog likely know, First Liberty has litigated landmark religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, including Kennedy v. Bremerton School…

Plaintiffs in complaint says ‘it’s hard to see a future’ after bill blocked care for trans youth and adults in May

The Government Accountability Office issued a report in April documenting instances of migrants losing birth certificates, cash and clothing

The report states that the abuses described by detainees "meet the definitions of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment"