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Nicholas Goldberg: Who are you calling a 'fascist' — and do you even know what it means?

Americans know little history and what little they know they forget. Ask college students who won the Civil War or ask adults when the U.S. Constitution was ratified or whom the U.S. fought in World War II and shocking numbers will have no idea.

Los Angeles Times

ACLU calls for investigation into treatment of migrants in Texas Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star

DALLAS — The ACLU of Texas and the national ACLU filed a formal complaint on Monday asking for a federal investigation into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star by the Department of Homeland Security civil rights compliance unit.

Tribune News Service

ACLU calls on feds to investigate Abbott’s policy transporting migrants back to border

In July, Abbott authorized state law enforcement to transport migrants to ports of entry. It’s unclear how and why migrants are being detained, raising civil rights concerns and questions about whether the state is overstepping federal authority.

The Texas Tribune

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Border Patrol threw away ‘hundreds’ of Sikh migrants’ turbans and told them they could ‘starve’: report

The Border Patrol, who has been aware of the allegations since June, said earlier this week it was opening an internal investigation into the allegations

The Independent UK

Anita Chabria: These families are flaming the ACLU as California debates mental health care

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bob Britton doesn't look like the kind of guy to be cursing out the American Civil Liberties Union, but there he was outside the state Capitol this week, offering up some choice four-letter words for the civil rights organization.

Los Angeles Times

UpRising Bakery reaches agreement with Lake in the Hills to continue hosting events, including kid-friendly drag show: ACLU

The ACLU called the agreement a “victory for free speech” that denies a win for “violent extremists that objected to UpRising’s support for the LGBTQ+ community.”

Chicago Sun-Times

ACLU accuses Border Patrol agents of taking turbans from Sikh men

Sikhs have long been targets of US government harassment

The Independent UK

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US border patrol accused of taking turbans from Sikh asylum-seekers

ACLU says there are nearly 50 cases of Sikhs saying religious headwear was taken as they passed through CBP checks in Arizona

The Guardian - US

A bakery faced harassment for a kid-friendly drag show. Now, officials are threatening to fine the owner

CHICAGO — A bakery that faced harassment and vandalism after advertising for a family-friendly drag show is now being threatened with code violations if it hosts any future events, according to a letter sent from the far northwest suburb to the bakery’s owner.

Chicago Tribune

Federal Courts Greenlight State Abortion Bans While State Courts Halt Enforcement

Plus: Video game play time doesn't affect well-being, crypto groups applaud the Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act, and more...

Reason

Georgia abortion providers take challenge of ban on procedure to state courts

ATLANTA — Less than a week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s restrictive abortion law to go into effect, activists and providers have taken their challenge of the statute to state court.

Tribune News Service

Do You Have a Right To Run Subway Ads Criticizing High Subway Fares?

A rider advocacy group says the Montreal's transit agency violated its free speech rights by refusing to run ads critical of recent fare hikes.

Reason

Poll: Tech Regulation Should Focus on Privacy and Security—Not Breaking Up Big Tech Companies

Plus: Arizona prisons censor The Nation, Facebook's feed changes, and more...

Reason

Afghans in US immigration limbo watch Ukrainians breeze through

Thousands of at-risk Afghans continue to wait for their humanitarian parole and visa applications to progress.

Al Jazeera

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U.S. government is still buying ‘huge volumes’ of smartphone location data

Taxpayer dollars are funding purchases of smartphone user data from questionable brokers

Reason

Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

Plus: The Respect for Marriage Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and more...

The Guardian - US

As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert

On the edge of northern Los Angeles county, at least 200 people are living in tents and trailers on remote, harsh terrain. ‘They treat us like we’re a lost cause,’ one resident said

Tribune News Service

Legal arguments in judges' hands as Georgia awaits abortion ruling

ATLANTA — State lawyers told a federal appellate court Friday it should let Georgia's stalled abortion law go into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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The Guardian - US

Detroit to reform cash bail system to end practices that jail people ‘too poor to purchase their freedom’

Overhaul is the result of a lawsuit and is intended to challenge two-tier system where low-income people are jailed for lack of funds

Ballotpedia

Signatures submitted for abortion rights initiative in Michigan

On July 11, the campaign Reproductive Freedom for All submitted 753,759 signatures for the ballot initiative, which would appear on the ballot in Michigan this November.

Los Angeles Times

ICE banned from using contractors to arrest immigrants at California jails, prisons

A California lawsuit has ended with a settlement that bans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from leaning on private contractors to arrest immigrants at state prisons and jails and send them to deportation proceedings.

The Independent UK

Detroit cash bail reforms to strike at racial inequality

Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates are announcing the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against bail practices in Detroit, where hundreds of defendants are jailed for no other reason than their inability to afford court-imposed bail

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bring back stop-and-frisk? With shootings soaring, some on Philly City Council say the controversial tactic merits another look

PHILADELPHIA — In response to the city's ongoing gun violence crisis and the shooting of two police officers at an Independence Day celebration, leaders in Philadelphia's City Council this week said it was time to reexamine the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk.

Reason

Slippery Slope Arguments and the Role of Ideological Advocacy Groups

[For the last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up this week.] Being aware of the slippery slope mechanisms can help counter them: such awareness may help prevent the initial decision A that might set the…

Axios

Inside the ACLU's campaign to build a Roe firewall

Down-ballot races that rarely get national attention are now viewed as the last line of defense.

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