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A coalition of privacy and civil liberties advocates filed a federal lawsuit Friday
accusing the Trump administration of secretly collecting and keeping personal information about people who monitor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations,
arguing that the practice violates federal privacy law and threatens constitutionally protected speech and association.
The lawsuit
— filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
— was brought by i…

Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Illegal Spying and Retaliation Targeting ICE Monitors | Common Dreams
“The federal government cannot build secret dossiers on people because they exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully observe, document, or criticize its actions," said the head of Democracy Forward.

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When history teacher Chris Dier sued Louisiana two years ago for mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms,
he said it was not about taking a stand against Christianity.
“It’s a defense of many different types of values, including civil liberties and religious freedoms,” Dier said,
who teaches at a New Orleans high school.
“I spent over 16 years teaching students that the constitution protects everyone of every faith – students of no faith too.”…

Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools

Was Mrs. Frazzled sagt.
"All civil rights are connected."
"The damage of that will not be contained to groups that are deemed unpopular enough to sacrifice."
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dc3ze1XAe3P/
Wer Menschenrechte für sich will, kann nich…

It’s John Grisham,
and I’m reaching out on behalf of a fellow Mississippian – Cliff Johnson.
Cliff is a civil rights lawyer and law professor with a long record of fighting for what’s right, battling injustice, and protecting the rights of all people.
I’m personally asking you to join me in making a financial contribution to Cliff.
I would not ask you if I did not believe myself that electing Cliff is so important to my home district and crucial to the future of our …

Cliff Johnson for Congress

DOJ Civil Rights Attorneys Leaving To Save Their Law Licenses, Whistleblower Tells Congress - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/08/doj-civil-rights-attorneys-leaving-to-save-their-law-licenses-whistleblower-tells-congress/

Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the justice department’s civil rights section,
told Bloomberg Newsof the plan to send out 1,000 election monitors earlier this week,
which she claimed was “probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration”.
“This DoJ has amply earned the public’s distrust,
but this announcement isn’t reason to freak out,”
said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who has worked on voting rights issues at …

Voting rights experts skeptical over Trump pledge of 1,000 election monitors
Department of Justice plan raises questions over its ability to recruit so many people – and what they would do

CRAB Park Warriors: Fighting FIFA and Advocating for Human Rights
"As FIFA fans swarm 16 cities in Mexico, the United States, and Canada including Vancouver, the CRAB Park Warriors continue their fight for human rights in the Downtown Eastside (“DTES”). From the massive influx of people to increased presence of law enforcement, the impact of FIFA’s presence in Vancouver is indisputable.
"Don’t get me wrong; I believe in the power of sports to excite, unify, inspire, and…

CRAB Park Warriors: Fighting FIFA and Advocating for Human Rights - BC Civil Liberties Association
By Latoya Farrell, Staff Counsel, and CRAB (Ayx) Park Community Warriors The Cost of the Spectacle As FIFA fans swarm 16 cities in Mexico, the United States, and Canada including […]

When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood
— the flow of donor dollars.
Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status.
Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision,
one they ref…

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors and the public in the dark.

Twenty years ago, John Roberts promised that as chief justice of the Supreme Court,
he would be like an umpire, calling balls and strikes.
His promise charmed senators and the media, who believed that his predilection for executive power and long-held antipathy for civil rights could be moderated by this commitment to faithfully apply the law.
The delusion was so powerful that for two decades, the media defaulted to portraying him as a moderate institutionalist,
poi…

This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

Trump admin dusts off 'Civil War-era law' to punish protesters and 'scare Americans' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-protesters/