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Legal Experts Aghast as 'Bloodythirsty' Right-Wing Supreme Court Sanctions Torturous Executions

"Clear Attack on the First Amendment": Authoritarian Trump Denounced for Stripping Press Credentials From CNN's Jim Acosta

Jon Queally, staff writer

U.S. President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Republicans kept the Senate majority but lost control of the House to the Democrats.

"This unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better," said the cable news outlet in a statement. "Jim Acosta has our full support."

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A Blatant Lie and 'Obvious Stunt': Trump Claims He Can End 14th Amendment's Citizenship Guarantee Protections by Presidential Fiat

Jon Queally, staff writer

"To respond as if he's ending birthright citizenship because he told an outlet...

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As Civil Disobedience Dominates Kavanaugh Hearing, Trump Says "It's Embarrassing for Country to Allow Protesters"

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Tireless and creative, rambunctious, confrontational, and peaceful protest is...

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A Guantanamo protest

At Historic Habeas Corpus Hearing, Guantanamo's 'Dangerous Experiment in Indefinite Detention' Challenged

Donald Trump

'Both Illegal and Unconstitutional': Trump Brazenly Suggests Immediate Deportations, Zero Due Process

DOJ Quietly Removes References to Press Freedom and Gerrymandering From Policy Manual

To Defeat NRA and Curb Gun Violence, Former Supreme Court Justice Says 'Repeal the 2nd Amendment'

'We Are Not That Country': Rebuking Trump Policies, Judge Orders Immigrant Rights Advocate Freed

After 16 Years Without Trial, Guantánamo Inmates and Rights Groups Demand End to 'Unconscionable' Imprisonment

flooding in Texas

"Absolutely Unconscionable': In Post-Harvey Texas, No Relief Funds for Critics of Israel

When FCC Chairman Won't Condemn Trump's Threats Against Free Press: 'Worry'

Animal rights supporters hold up signs at a pork expo protest in June 2012. (Photo: Justin Norman/flickr/cc)

New Report Exposes "Big Ag's Gag Agenda"

White supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville

More than 200 people were indicted on felony rioting charges during anti-Trump protests on Inauguration Day

Trump DOJ Wants Info on Every Person Who Visited Anti-Trump Protest Site

Citing Free Speech, Dissenters Sue Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter

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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

CREW Statement On Emoluments Ruling

Public Citizen

Whose Side Are They On: Main Street Consumers or Wall Street Banks?

ACLU

ACLU-TN Statement on Passage of "LGBT Erasure" Legislation...

ACLU

ACLU Statement on Ann Coulter Speech

Common Cause

More Than 200 Organizations Oppose Calls for New Constitutional Convention, Warn of Dangers

Common Cause

Maryland Legislature Rescinds Call for Dangerous Constitutional Convention in the Face of Nationwide Special Interests Push

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Michael Winship

What I Saw at the (American) Revolution

David Greene, Kurt Opsahl

The Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism, the Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech

Melodi Dincer, Kristin M. Mulvey

The Government Cannot Force E-mail Companies to Copy and Save Your Account ‘Just in Case’

Christopher Brauchli

The Newborns vs. Trump

Omar Jadwat

No Mr. President, You Can’t Change the Constitution by Executive Order

Tim Lau

The Trump Administration Wants to Drastically Limit the Right to Protest in the Nation’s Capital

Robert C. Koehler

Rethinking the Whole Country

Lornet Turnbull

Two-Thirds of Americans Live in the 'Constitution-Free Zone'

Tom Sullivan

Arpaio Pardon: The First Verifiable Impeachable Offense?

William Cohn

'Of Men, Not Law': To Make America Hate Again