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Lombardo seeks to turn back time on criminal justice reforms

Legislation touted Tuesday by Gov. Joe Lombardo and law enforcement officials from Northern Nevada would turn back the clock on modest reforms passed by lawmakers with bipartisan support in 2019.

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Nationwide Injunction Ruling is Troubling, but Limited

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We’re Working to Safeguard Our Democracy and Our Health

To protect our democracy, it’s imperative that we expand early voting, allow every eligible voter to vote by mail, and reduce the logistical, financial, and health barriers that inhibit voting by mail.

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We’re Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities

Unbeknownst to the public, this company has offered up this massive faceprint database to private companies, police, federal agencies, and wealthy individuals, allowing them to secretly track and target whomever they wished using face recognition technology.

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The FDA is Making Needless COVID-19 Risks a Condition of Abortion and Miscarriage Care. We’re Suing.

Against a nationwide medical consensus, the FDA is forcing patients to endure life-threatening risks to access medication to end an early pregnancy or treat a miscarriage.

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ICE’s Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives

ICE has been demonstrably dishonest with the courts and public about matters related to COVID-19 — so we're filing a FOIA request to uncover more information.

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Georgetown Students Demonstrate How Reparations Can Be Made to African-American Students

Institutions of higher education should establish reparation funds to finance the educations of African-Americans descended from slaves.

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We’re Suing to Protect Press Freedom During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Today, we filed a First Amendment lawsuit challenging two recently-enacted Puerto Rico laws that make it a crime to share information the government deems to be false about emergency conditions on the island.

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How to Co-opt a Pandemic to Ban Asylum

The Trump administration is exploiting a public health crisis to achieve its long-held goal of ending asylum at the border.

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When a Two-Year Sentence Becomes a Death Sentence

That’s why the ACLU has put out a call for governors around the country, President Trump, and the BOP to release all pregnant people from prisons and jails who have less than a year remaining on their sentence.

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DeVos is Rolling Back Protections for Sexual Harassment and Assault Survivors in Schools. We’re Suing to Put a Stop to It.

The DeVos standard redefines what constitutes sexual harassment and assault in disturbing ways. This means that a school would not be obligated to help a middle school student harassed by another student on their way home from school.

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