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Immigration Reform: Week Two Is Through

05/20/2013 – After two more long days last week of largely unsuccessful attempts to scuttle the immigration reform bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee now is looking at the gargantuan task of ...

"Drones" vs "UAVs" -- What's Behind A Name?

05/20/2013 – Representatives of the drone industry and other drone boosters often make a point of saying they don’t like to use the word “drones.” When my colleague Catherine Crump and I were writing ...

Running Scared in Nebraska: Death Penalty Loving State Senators Hide Behind a Filibuster

05/20/2013 – This week in Nebraska, a handful of senators – four in particular – used filibusters and frivolous amendments to stall a full debate...

Barbara Brenner, 1951-2013

05/20/2013 – The ACLU mourns the loss of a great leader, tenacious activist, and close friend of the organization. Barbara Brenner, the longtime director of Breast Cancer Action ("BCA"), was a ...

It Is Time to Modernize Discriminatory HIV/AIDS Laws

05/16/2013 – While science has vastly advanced since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic more than 30 years ago, the ways in which many criminal laws treat people living with HIV look like ...