[ACLU\Portland]
ACLU: “Multiple volunteer street medics are suing the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, and the City of Portland for targeting and attacking them at Portland protests against police brutality.”
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ACLU
Trump’s Secret Police Creating Constitutional Crisis in Portland
[Trump’s Secret Police\Portland]
Brown: “Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland have been shot in the head with kinetic impact munitions, swept away in unmarked cars…We cannot sit idly by and accept this as the new normal — in Portland or anywhere else in this country.”
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D.C. Police Coordinated with Trump to Tear-Gas Peaceful Protesters
[Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law]
Kristen Clarke: “The footage shows that D.C. police officers willingly participated alongside federal law enforcement in the Lafayette Square assault on protesters.”
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Trump’s Purges Will Screw 16.7 Million out of Right to Vote
[2020 General Election]
Palast: “The dirty little secret of American elections is that we don’t count all the ballots — and we sure as hell don’t allow every citizen to vote. In total, no less than 5,872,857 ballots were cast and never counted in 2016.”
YouTube
TRUMP USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO ELIMINATE CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS
[Civil Rights Protections\COVID-19]
Morial: “In an act of breathtakingly bad faith, the federal compliance office has issued an order suspending equal opportunity requirements during the coronavirus crisis. Companies who contract with the federal government are now free to discriminate.”
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NEW POLL FINDS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT DECRIMINALIZING SEX WORK
[Decriminalizing Sex Work]
Chinyere Ezie, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights: “Laws criminalizing sex work criminalize poverty and thrust LGBTQIA people of color who face rampant employment discrimination into prisons and jails. This report begins a discussion about criminal justice reform that’s long overdue and charts a path forward for a more just future.”
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INNOCENCE PROJECT & ACLU DEMAND RELEASE OF EVIDENCE THAT COULD EXONERATE EXECUTED BLACK MAN
[Criminal Justice\Execution of Ledell Lee]
Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project: “Two of the biggest predictors of a death sentence are racial bias and the quality of counsel. There is tremendous evidence that both of these factors played out in Ledell’s case. He should never have ever been executed under these circumstances.”
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ACLU PRAISES NEW JERSEY MAYOR MURPHY FOR SIGNING NEW PRISON OVERSIGHT LAW
[Mass Incarceration\Prison Reform]
The “Dignity for Incarcerated Primary Caretaker Parents Act,” A3979/S2540, provides expanded opportunities for parents to connect with loved ones and increases transparency, accountability and oversight of the Department of Corrections. This law creates one of the strongest corrections oversight structures in the country.
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Stoking Fear U.S. Bigot-in-Chief Trump Readies Raids for Sunday
[Immigration News]
Trump Administration’s upcoming ICE “family operation” raids politically calculated to fire up the “deport-em-all segment of the President’s base.”
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Wikileaks Calls Trump Administration’s Espionage Indictment On Julian Assange Unprecedented Attack On Free Press
[U.S Department of Justice News]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: DOJ indicts Assange on espionage charges…
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