Civil Liberties

In 2016, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to restore voting rights to felons who...

Rapper Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against a prison in Mississippi, arguing that the conditions...

A newly declassified report evaluating a program the NSA runs to track our phone calls...

While many Republicans, and Trump himself, absurdly compared his impeachment to the Salem witch trials,...

The courts have long allowed searches, like frisking and luggage searches, at the border that...

Well this is an interesting development. A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush has...

Remember that Christian District Attorney in Tennessee I wrote about recently who said that Muslims...

At a press availability that was intended to talk about manufacturing at the White House,...

Maya Moore is one of the greatest women's basketball players of all time. A two-time...

Some in the comments of my post on Joe Biden and his rejection of Brown...

President Obama adopted a policy at the DOJ to make it harder to seize cash...

An assistant principal in Denton, Texas, is out of his job after being recorded telling...

An African-American federal judge from Mississippi gave a talk at the University of Virginia Law...

Missouri State Rep. Hardy Billington has submitted a bill to prohibit the use of pseudonyms...

Here's yet another example of a teacher attacking a student for exercising their right not...

After advocating the death penalty for several young men of color even after DNA proved...

My friend Radley Balko has a Washington Post column about Trump's new pick for Attorney...

It should come as a surprise to no on that the thoroughly racist Donald Trump...

I absolutely despise the League of the South, a white supremacist, neo-Confederate organization that loves...

The Supreme Court issued an important ruling on Thursday in a 4th Amendment case, saying...

Being from Michigan, I know full well how dangerous Betsy DeVos' views on everything, especially...

The Bridge, an excellent non-profit journalism organization here in Michigan, has a report about how...

The Supreme Court term is beginning to wind down, with about four weeks left to...

When the Lawrence Krauss story came out a couple weeks ago, a lot of his...

Continuing his near-perfect record of nominating the worst people imaginable to positions in the federal...

Now this is what I've been waiting a very long time to see, a teacher...

I wrote a couple weeks ago about Lansing Catholic High School punishing football players who...

CNN found the audio of an interview with Roy Moore in 2011 in which he...

During the protests against racist policing in St. Louis, several of my friends have been...

Immediately after the terror attack in New York City, Trump predictably flapped his jaws about...