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Press Conference Announcing Legal Challenge to NYPD Muslim Surveillance Program
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What's NSA Surveillance Got To Do With Me?
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2013 ACLU Awards
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Marijuana: One Drug, Two Stories
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Marijuana Arrests by the Numbers
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Another rape. Ho hum, ho hum: New Report on Rape in Prison - Civil Liberties Minute
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Patents on Human Genes: A Patient's Perspective
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Who Owns Your Body?
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics: Supreme Court Arguments
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Nick Smith's Story
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Edie's Day in Court
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Gideon: Memphis Public Defender on Indigent Defense
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Gideon: Unfulfilled at 50
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Stop Solitary: Maine's Commissioner of the Department of Corrections Joseph Ponte on Reducing His State's Solitary Confinement Population
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Timeline: A History of the Voting Rights Act
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Slideshow: Did You Kiss the Dead Body? by Rajkamal Kahlon
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Stand With Bayli As She Stands Up To Bullies
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![Guantánamo by the Numbers [Infographic]](https://d3h9au4afozpag.cloudfront.net/files/imagecache/mm_image_block/mm_images/cg_infographic.jpg "Guantánamo by the Numbers [Infographic]")
Guantánamo by the Numbers [Infographic]
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Slideshow: Leen Nour El-Zayat DREAMs
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An Injustice Faced by our Military Women