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Biden Administration Plans to Tweak Asylum Ban to Make it Harder for Officials to End it in the Future

The proposed changes would also include more migrants in the calculations used for the deactivation threshold, such as including all unaccompanied children

Latin Times · Sep 27, 2024

UC and Cal State Restrictions Imposed After Palestine Protests Are Assailed as Unconstitutional

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

Capital & Main · Sep 26, 2024

If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights

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

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2024

The War on 'Foreign Influence' Has Become a War on the First Amendment

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

Reason · Sep 9, 2024

A federal judge tosses a lawsuit over the ban on recorded inmate interviews in South Carolina

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

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2024

A dozen Louisiana victims of police racism get $1,000 each month. The program is funded by a family that got rich off slavery

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

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2024

The Latest ProPublica Story About Ginni Thomas

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…

Reason · Sep 5, 2024

Trans adults stripped of healthcare access sue South Carolina over GOP bill: ‘I’m desperate’

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

The Guardian - US · Aug 29, 2024

Border Patrol agents ordered to stop discarding migrant's belongings after hundreds of complaints

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

Latin Times · Aug 28, 2024

New report uncovers widespread inhumane treatment of immigrants at Louisiana ICE centers

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

Latin Times · Aug 28, 2024