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In suit vs. Boston police, the issue is to ensure both safety and due process
Our organizations, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit seeking public records about the Boston…
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Tom Cotton Is Here To Ruin Prison Reform
WASHINGTON ― With a blessing from Donald Trump ― a politician so “tough on crime” he still thinks the Central Park…
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Civil liberties, uncivil tongues as police, ACLU square off
You can’t say ACLU isn’t working for a solution to urban crime Re “Gross-ACLU flap splits city leaders” (Page A1,…
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William Gross, Boston’s typically affable police leader, flashes rare anger in social-media post on ACLU
Boston Police Commissioner William G. Gross was sworn in four months ago to great fanfare, promising to improve relations between…
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Federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who crossed the southern border illegally,…
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A Judge Blocks Trump’s Asylum Ban on Migrants Caught Crossing the Border
It took less than a day for a federal judge in San Francisco to issue an injunction against the Trump…
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In Asylum Claims, Is Domestic Abuse ‘Private Violence’ or a Societal Issue?
A migrant mother walks with her two daughters on their way to cross the port of entry into the U.S.…
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Civil Rights Groups Immediately Sue as Trump Tries to Block Asylum Seekers
After President Donald Trump signed a proclamation blocking any migrant caught crossing the southern border from claiming asylum, multiple civil…
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GOP official’s criticism of Jewish protesters is distinctly un-American
A Massachusetts Republican Party official called a group of Boston protesters “vile” and “an embarrassment to the country” (“State GOP…
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The National Hotline for Voter Complaints Has Received More than Twenty Thousand Calls on Election Day
When voters showed up at Anderson-Livsey Elementary School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, this morning, they found voting machines but no…
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