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Our fundamental freedoms will always be filtered through the goals and desires of people in power.

The married couple performed a dance viewed 1.7 million times to help raise funds to protect drag queens who are facing bans around the United States.

O'Sullivan's Law stipulates that "all organizations that are not explicitly right-wing will over time become left-wing."

Our experiences navigating this system have shown us all too clearly that the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright has yet to be fully realized—and that dramatic change is necessary to realize that promise as we approach the 60th anniversary of this landmark decision.

"Kentucky, like a lot of so-called red states, is kind of caught in the culture war battles," a Kentucky political expert told Newsweek.

Larry Eugene Price, Jr. died of starvation in solitary confinement in summer 2021. In a new court filing, an Arkansas County says the case should be dismissed.

One Twitter user said that reinstating Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts could result in the former president "stirring up more political violence."

As a country, we've always prioritized punishment and incarceration over prevention and support. Tough on crime policies have failed over and over again.

"I realized I had forgotten my wallet when I arrived at my polling location, and offered my press secretary card," Alabama GOP Chairman John Wahl told Newsweek.

News of the ACLU suit comes on the heels of an announcement by the former Tampa-area prosecutor that he was suing Governor Ron DeSantis for retaliation.

Lawyer Jessica Meyers of Brown Rudnick stated that the ACLU's original request of $86,000 was "exorbitant and unreasonable."

At the time of her $7 million divorce settlement, Heard announced that she would split the entire payout equally between the ACLU and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

The ACLU has in recent years drifted away from its moorings as the nation's premiere defender of the First Amendment, struggling instead to balance its commitment to free expression with progressive stances on behalf of racial and sexual minorities.

The ACLU is demanding that Depp pay $86,256 after several ACLU witnesses testified in the trial, as well as reimbursement for documents the ACLU provided.

Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard had previously pledged to donate $3.5 million to the ACLU.

The state's new abortion law is the strictest in the country, which reproductive rights advocates say will have ripple effects nationally.

The actress previously pledged to donate $3.5 million of her divorce settlement to the civil rights organization.

According to testimony from the ACLU's chief operating officer, Herd has not delivered on her promise to donate $3.5 million to the organization.

"This is a huge victory," Lee Gelernt, the attorney overseeing the case and deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, told Newsweek.

"No family should have to fear being torn apart because they are supporting their trans child," said the ACLU of Texas.

The initial suit was brought against the MSP by reporters injured by troopers while covering protests in the wake of the George Floyd and Daunte Wright killings.

The suit accuses Texas of erroneously flagging naturalized citizens as "non-citizens" under shaky and undisclosed criteria.

Noem's proposal joins other anti-abortion measures recently enacted in South Dakota, including an executive order blocking telemedicine abortions.

Holly Dickson, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, said no one should be subject to medical experimentation.

The policy changed this week previously required transgender people to legally change their name before a sex reassignment surgery could be approved.

A petition organized by the Northland Student Association had gained more than 1,000 signatures by Monday afternoon.

Deborah Archer said the ACLU is "fighting some of those fights that we fought" under Donald Trump and that the Biden Administration must do more.

A lawsuit alleges that the Tennessee law breaches the equal rights safeguards in Title IX and the 14th amendment.

Though the ACLU is against the death penalty, the group argues that death row prisoners should at least be permitted to exercise their religious freedom.

Since he became president, Joe Biden has done just about everything conceivable to signal that his administration isn't serious about enforcing the nation's immigration laws.