Poor People Have Rights Too
As reported yesterday in the New York Times , over the past year three dozen states introduced legislation to drug test individuals receiving public assistance. This includes individuals applying for everything from Temporary Assistance for Needy ...
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"There Is Almost No Voter Fraud in America."
"I hope for four, or five. It could be 10,000," he said. "It's a shot in the dark." — Tennessee State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins, when asked how many noncitizens may be registered to vote in his state. The New York T...
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Trading Privacy for Benefits
The New York Times has this story about the dramatic increase in the number of states considering legislation that would mandate drug testing for poor people who rely on public assistance. The ACLU of Florida filed a lawsuit in September challengin...
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Effort to Repeal DOMA in Congress Gains Bipartisan Support
Early on Friday morning, it was announced that the legislative effort in Congress to repeal the discriminatory and unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is now a bipartisan affair. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) became the first Republ...
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Core Civil Liberties Threatened in State Legislatures: Three Trends to Watch
State legislatures are ground zero in the fight for civil liberties. Although they may not attract as much attention as debates in Congress or arguments in the Supreme Court, they are the source of unprecedented assaults on our most fundamental righ...
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Told You So: Florida’s New Drug Testing Policy Already Costing Taxpayers More
We've told you a few times about Florida's horrible new law that drug tests all families applying for cash benefit welfare applicants. The law, which went into effect July 1, makes applicants front the cost of the drug test and reimburses individua...
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Being Poor Is Not a Crime
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States...
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Our Own Chris Hampton on the Savage Lovecast!
Our LGBT Project is so busy, sometimes it's hard for even us to keep up with all the progress they're making. In fact, just today, we got a big win in Arkansas, when the state supreme court struck down Act 1, a law that prohibited unmarried couples ...
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Florida’s Clemency Board Approves Secret Plan To Further Restrict Voting Rights In State With Troubled Voting History
Move Will Take Away Fundamental Rights Of Hundreds Of Thousands And Harm Communities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org TALLAHASSEE, FL – The Florida Board of Executive Clemency voted today to change its rules to requi...
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