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ABOUT THE ACLU

BREAKING: We’re suing President Trump over today’s blatantly illegal declaration of a national emergency. There is no emergency. This is an unconstitutional power grab that hurts American communities.
We’ll see him in court.

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

The Capital Punishment Project works toward the repeal of the death penalty in the United States through strategic litigation, advocacy, public education, and training programs for capital defense teams.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/capital-punishment​​​​​​​
The death penalty in America is a broken process from start to finish. Death sentences are predicted not by the heinousness of the crime but by the poor quality of the defense lawyers, the race of the accused or the victim, and the county and state in which the crime occurred. From 1976 to 2015, 1,392 executions occurred in the United States, and 995 of them took place in the South. Time and time again, we have proven that the criminal justice system fails to protect the innocent and persons with serious mental disabilities and illnesses from execution. Even the administration of executions is utterly flawed: Every method of execution comes with an intolerably high risk of extreme pain and torture.

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Roger David Hardesty shared a post.· 

'Border' technology often intrudes MILES from the nation's actual border. Think airports. Mission creep aims surveillance tools at the general population. Homeland Security "cannot be trusted to adopt appropriate safeguards on its own to prevent rights violations. DHS has utilized drones outside border and coastal areas, flown them for non-patrol purposes, and conducted surveillance on behalf of other agencies like ICE and the FBI." #NoPortlandJTTF

ACLU of Oregon

February 2 at 12:14 PM · 

Congress shouldn’t be wasting more taxpayer money while also undermining the rights of people on the border.

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Congress, Don’t Give DHS Unrestricted Authority to Build a 'Smart Wall'

On Thursday, House Democrats unveiled their proposal for a $55 billion Department of Homeland Security budget. The proposal includes some strong provisions — including no funding for a border wall, no new Border Patrol agents, and a requirement for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cut its de...

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FEATURED BLOG POSTS

• Ohio Bucks a Bad Trend With New Police Body Camera Law

  The state’s new law on wearable police cameras strikes the right balance between transparency and privacy.

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  A case about a video banned from public access cable TV could have important implications for our constitutional rights.

• High School Could Have Been Hell for My Transgender Son. Don't Make It Hell for the Next Kid.

  I had hoped that my son would wait until after high school to come out as transgender. But I realized I'd prefer a thriving son over a dead daughter.

ISSUE SPOTLIGHT: IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS

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