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As America is taking time this week to remember Senator Kennedy, I wanted to share this tribute from our nationa

I was reading this article in the NY Times last week about former Solicitor General and attorney Theodore Olson’s prominent role in the latest chapter of California’s Proposition 8 saga.      

Through two FOIA requests, the ACLU obtained detailed official records of the CIA’s torture program. I can’t put it any better than Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project: “The background paper is a profoundly disturbing document that illustrates, as well as anything could, how far the CIA strayed from the law and from values that are integral to our democracy. That the barbaric methods outlined in the paper were approved by the country's senior-most officials is particularly appalling."

Today, in an important victory in our efforts to restore the rule of law,  Mohammad Jawad was released fro

This week I traveled to Franklin, Hancock, and Penobscot counties for meetings with ACLU of MAINE members.  On Sunday, I join a group of MCLUers in Porter in Oxford County for a house party.  I am so inspired by these conversations and gatherings. 

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge knew.

In June, the ACLU released a report on the devastating effect of U.S.

Justice Scalia has written and spoken in the past that, if his job as a judge required him to do something that was con

In response to an ACLU lawsuit, DHS announced an additional 11 unreported deaths in immigration detention centers since 20