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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
"I protect a lot of harmful speech. A short thread" 17 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 3480
Accusations of coerced confessions in Melissa Lucio case shine spotlight on tactic 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 9 2112
DNA evidence frees California man imprisoned for decades 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 7 1702
School-board spat raises recurring question: Can government officials block you on social media? 0 sl8 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 1862
10-27-1947: Committee for the First Amendment arrives in DC to support "blacklisted" colleagues 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 1572
Jurors Can Protect Abortion Access 1 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1528
Court rules geofence warrant violates Fourth Amendment 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 2001
Ohio law requires *prisoner* to request testing. Conviction/death sentence stand. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1630
"Last night, the mayor of Newton, Iowa ejected Noah Petersen from a city council meeting." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 2370
Is the Government Tracking Your Abortion? 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 1652
Man working to rebuild life after going to jail for crime he didn't commit 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1565
"Trump on Supreme Court Leak: You take the writer and or the publisher... " 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 2438
Chicago college shuts down anti-Marxism display, threatens conservative students with ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 1992
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 GenXer47 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2321
A website creator is using the Second Amendment to try and upend the First 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1755
On this day, October 15, 1965, a draft card was burned during an anti-war rally. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 1817
The First Amendment and Alex Jones: a thread 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1514
North Carolina HBCU leader 'outraged' after bus of Black students stopped in SC 11 Eugene Oct 2022 Oct 2022 50 4194
Comedians sue over drug search program at Atlanta airport 0 Eugene Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1408
How Discovery Channel's 'MythBusters' Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 1748
Police Charged a Woman for Recording Them Holding a Black Man at Gunpoint. Now, They Owe Her 2 Eugene Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 1931
Judge dismisses case over FBI raid of 1,400 private safe-deposit boxes and seizure of millions in je 2 Eugene Oct 2022 Oct 2022 11 2318
The Onion advises the Supreme Court's 'total Latin dorks' on parody 1 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1590
California Restricts Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials After Gov. Newsom Signs Bill 1 Eugene Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1871
Why is it so hard to free wrongfully convicted people from prison? 3 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 1524
The Trevor Project teams up with a student surveillance company accused of LGBTQ+ bias 0 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1594
Fifth Circuit reverses and grants judgment *for* a judge who does a prayer ceremony in his courtroom 8 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 1975
Black people are being falsely convicted of serious crimes at alarming rates, report finds 3 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 1788
University of Idaho tells faculty that talking about abortion could have criminal repercussions. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1647
Senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools 2 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 1404

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Treatment of Serial's Adnan Syed is a National Shame 0 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 1572
Messenger: They stood up to a Missouri judge for First Amendment rights. They won. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1640
US Private Vaults: FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in c 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 2076
Florida brings battle over social media regulation to the Supreme Court 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1726
Today, FIRE lodged a formal complaint with the Hood County District Attorney following repeated ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1646
This Banned Books Week, we are spotlighting many of the LGBTQIA+ books being banned ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1460
Riotsville, USA: the shocking story of fake army towns that militarised police 1 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1682
Arizona Legislature won't defend law limiting police filming 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1321
Fossil Fuel Giants Have Targeted 150+ Activists With 'Judicial Harassment': Report 4 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 2074
Where there's no 1A: 7 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 2068
From 2017: "A Texas sheriff threatened this woman for having a "F**K TRUMP" bumper sticker." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 14 2285
With thousands of people confused about the First Amendment and censorship ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1467
This Tennessee town is restricting demonstrations 'to facilitate the safe exercise' of First... 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1946
9th Cir. holds 2-1 Fellowship of Christian Athletes school group likely to prevail on its challenge 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 2178
Popular Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Arrested After 'Traumatizing' Swatting Incident 2 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1668
A legal battle in Mississippi will test whether states can criminalize those who provide information 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1772
Oklahoma teacher suspended after promoting Brooklyn Public Library's anti-censorship campaign 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1380
They didn't remain silent: How false confessions happen 1 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 1486
We're here because we're people who kill Hessians on Christmas. The kids will be okay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 1819
I protect the right of federal judiciary employees to engage in partisan politics outside ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 1873
The Feminist Case for Ending the Death Penalty 4 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1440
Pennsylvania school district trying to ban any written expression not created for school purposes. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 2085
Students in every ND public school, along with every public school in the US, also have the right... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 2045
Attorneys argue juries should know they don't need to convict on unpopular abortion and drug laws 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 1554
25 years after wrongful conviction, a man is free from Angola 1 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1414
How Solitary Confinement Harms Women 0 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 1086
Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 2178
Re: the theater thing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 1336
7 murder convictions overturned in a single day after prosecutors stop backing group of cases tied 1 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 18 1942
Even the District Attorney Believed Joaquin Ciria Was Innocent. Why Did It Take So Long to Set Him 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 1507

Civil Liberties Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Privacy concerns awakened as Roe v Wade is overturned 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 1199
"I would have been happier if a jury had assessed the merits of the case against Alex Jones ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 1969
Federal court upholds First Amendment protections for students on social media off campus 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1386
1A: "Legislation that requires biblical citizenship training in schools would violate me" 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 1551
"Today, @WSJ published a letter to the editor by my @IJ colleague Anya and me." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 1473
"This is a very good piece ... tracing a 1662 slavery case to the 2022 Dobbs decisions ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 14 1842
On Friday, the 5th Cir. granted #QualifiedImmunity to a mayor, police chief, and attorney ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1440
28 women file suit over 'night of terror' in Indiana jail, alleging incarcerated men bribed jail 1 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1561
"It's Crushing": The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1489
Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 1499
With Roe gone, states rush to criminalize not only abortion, but 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 about abortion. 12 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 32 2873
That's the price you pay for serving in government. You have to listen to the people who annoy you. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1487
Victory!!! Larry Klayman sued Rebecca Schoenkopf and @Wonkette over publications protected by 1A. 13 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 32 2956
Lafayette Parish librarian who spoke against censorship of LGBTQ books may be fired Monday 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1771
Oklahoma City library releases guidelines on patrons seeking abortion information 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 1230
Despite judge's ruling that Spokane County deleted video evidence in jail death 'to avoid legal' 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 1536
Lawsuit: Chicago police misused ShotSpotter in murder case 0 Eugene Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 1423
"I protect your right to participate in public school board meetings, including your right to ..." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 1745
Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.: Arizona Moves to Hold Cops Unaccountable 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 1287
Another US appeals court upholds right to record police 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 999
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