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Missouri ACLU, librarians sue over law that led to schools banning hundreds of books

Missouri librarians are suing over a new law that bans sexually explicit material from schools, leading to districts removing hundreds of books — including classic novels, human anatomy texts and Holocaust history books, according to a lawsuit filed in Jackson County Court.

Tribune News Service

New Biden rule echoes "Trump asylum ban"

Former White House official says new Biden policy advances "white nationalist" views

Salon

Biden unveils Trump-style plan to deter asylum seekers at Mexico border

Administration’s most aggressive plan yet would bar most migrants who hadn’t sought protection in other countries first

The Guardian - US

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Biden administration issues proposal to restrict asylum seekers

The new rule would make asylum seekers ineligible for US protection if they ‘circumvent’ legal pathways.

Al Jazeera

Top US court refuses to review anti-BDS law. Here’s what it means

The decision does not necessarily mean that the Supreme Court thinks anti-BDS laws are constitutional, experts say.

Al Jazeera

US supreme court lets Arkansas law penalising Israel boycotts stand

Anti-boycott law provides model for legislation to protect oil companies, gun makers and contentious industries from protest

The Guardian - US

Alabama takes steps toward using nitrogen as new execution method

But critics decry death penalty ‘experimentation’ that state is developing after a series of botched lethal injections

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After-School Satan Club holds first meeting ‘without incident’ despite protesters at Virginia school, lawyer says

NORFOLK, Va. — The After-School Satan Club held its first meeting at Chesapeake’s B.M. Williams Primary on Thursday evening, according to the ACLU of Virginia.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota justices leave felon voting issue to Legislature

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld state laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting until they finish their parole, and put the burden on the Legislature to decide whether voting rights should be restored when people leave prison

The Independent UK

Senators fault Department of Justice for 'appalling' conditions in jails

LOS ANGELES — The federal government started investigating Los Angeles jails in 1996 — back when Bill Clinton was president, the Spice Girls were all the rage, and Tupac Shakur's killing dominated the news.

Los Angeles Times

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy

More than 3,800 children were removed from families between 2017 and 2021 as part of a crackdown on border crossings.

Al Jazeera

Utah bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors

Utah’s the latest in a wave of anti-transgender legislation from Republican-led states

The Independent UK

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Bogus arrests, bogus charges, and bogus seizures.

Reason

Yale Law School Program with Kristin Waggoner (ADF), Nadine Strossen (ex-ACLU), and Robert Post (Former Dean)

seems to have gone very well.

Reason

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Donald Trump is reinstated to Facebook after 2-year ban

Ending a two-year ban, Facebook says the public has a right to hear from its political leaders, ‘the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices.’

Reason

Arizona-Led Effort Spies on Americans' Financial Transactions

Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.

Reason

North Dakota Legislators Consider Bill To Ban 'Sexually Explicit' Material From Public Libraries

"If you don't like a book, don't read it. The First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom of speech and the right to access information has created a beautiful marketplace of ideas in our country," said one ACLU representative opposing the bill.

Tribune News Service

Kansas death penalty faces new challenge with ACLU invoking landmark abortion decision

The ACLU is mounting a major new effort to overturn Kansas’ death penalty, arguing it’s racially discriminatory and that, because of a landmark state Supreme Court decision upholding abortion rights, officials must clear a high legal bar to show capital sentences are constitutional.

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Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court upholds controversial Title 42 border policy

Invoked under the Trump administration, Title 42 uses public health as a justification for expelling asylum seekers.

Salon

Texas superintendent removed LGBTQ books

The Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the district

Tribune News Service

Groups claim North Carolina DMV is denying full licenses to immigrants who are entitled to them

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is failing to provide some immigrants who are in the country legally with the types of driver’s licenses they are entitled to under the law, according to two organizations that have asked the agency to clarify its policies.

Tribune News Service

Feds open civil rights investigation into Texas school district after LGBTQ book removals

DALLAS — The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into Granbury ISD, a North Texas district where officials removed books with LGBTQ themes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: A school district's indefensible treatment of LGBTQ students

The Central Bucks School District is one of the wealthiest school systems in Pennsylvania. That will come in handy since the district is paying a lawyer $940 an hour to defend a federal complaint of its own making.

The Independent UK

New Mexico city sued for hounding, harassing the homeless

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of Albuquerque in an effort to stop officials in the state’s largest city from destroying homeless encampments and jailing and fining people who are living on the street

Tribune News Service

SC county settles ACLU lawsuit over ‘debtor’s prison,’ promises improved public defense

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lexington County, South Carolina, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by several people who had been jailed in the county for a failure to pay court fines and fees, who compared their situation to a modern-day “debtor’s prison.”

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