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How Kamala Harris Can Be a Pro-Voting Rights President Aug. 26, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

In a moment when hostile state legislators have used unlawful redistricting efforts and discriminato... Read More

Trial by Jury Is Vital to American Democracy Aug. 20, 2024

Crime and Conduct

In colonial America, the British deprived colonists the right to jury trials. This prohibition was c... Read More

Why a Harris Presidency Promises Hope for LGBTQ Rights Aug. 19, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

For the past four years, the Biden-Harris administration has made LGBTQ rights a cornerstone of its ... Read More

Trump's Luck Is Running Out, and He Isn't Taking It Well Aug. 14, 2024

The Raffel Ticket

When misfortune strikes others, Trump crows. When it strikes him, he whines. Trump didn't ask Russia... Read More

The Right to Bodily Autonomy Aug. 13, 2024

Crime and Conduct

The art of movie making can be provocative, a glimpse of the past as a harbinger of the future. Ther... Read More

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doesn't Guarantee a Fair Outcome Aug. 06, 2024

Crime and Conduct

Everyone accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty — guilty "beyond a reason... Read More

Trump's Attacks on DEI Reveal Administration's Agenda for Second Term Aug. 06, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

This piece was written before Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. No significa... Read More

How Donald Trump's Election Lies and Other Anti-Voter Policies Will Continue To Impact Our Democracy Jul. 30, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him is not only a lie (no widespread v... Read More

Susan Smith, Infamous Killer of Her Children, Is Where She Belongs Jul. 23, 2024

Crime and Conduct

In the summer of 1994, O.J. Simpson engaged in his infamous low-speed chase with a parade of Los Ang... Read More

Trump Continues To Break the Laws of Probability Jul. 17, 2024

The Raffel Ticket

In 2009, Patricia Demauro held the dice at a craps table in Atlantic City for a record 154 rolls. Gi... Read More

SCOTUS Is Meant to Be a Court, Not Our Supreme Ruler Jul. 10, 2024

Jim Hightower

What is a SCOTUS? Sounds like a prehistoric critter scuttling along some seabed. But, no, it is the ... Read More

Supreme Court Grants Trump, Future Presidents a Loaded Weapon To Break the Law Jul. 08, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Supreme Court's decision to grant presidents immunity from prosecution for criminal acts committ... Read More

'A King Above the Law': Supreme Court Makes Immunity Ruling Jul. 02, 2024

Crime and Conduct

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Trump v. United States, the much-anticipated decision on preside... Read More

Supreme Court's 'Modest' Gun Ruling Hardly a Victory Jun. 25, 2024

Crime and Conduct

Last Friday, advocates for sensible gun access applauded a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The d... Read More

The State of the Race Jun. 20, 2024

Susan Estrich

The convictions should have made a difference. But did they? I was more troubled by what came out at... Read More

Trump on LGBTQ Rights: Rolling Back Protections and Criminalizing Gender Nonconformity Jun. 17, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Donald Trump's administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBT... Read More

Should Sotomayor Cry Some More? May. 29, 2024

Terence Jeffrey

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Harvard University last week to accept the Radcliffe M... Read More

5 Things To Know About the Supreme Court Case Threatening Doctors Providing Emergency Abortion Care May. 27, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States... Read More

You and What Army, ICC? May. 24, 2024

David Harsanyi

The same day the Biden administration and European Union offered their condolences over the death of... Read More

Under the Big Top in Manhattan, Trump's the Ringmaster May. 11, 2024

Georgia Garvey

There's a three-ring circus playing in a Manhattan courthouse right now, with Donald Trump taking th... Read More