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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 · Jul 26, 2022

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 · Jul 26, 2022

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 · Jul 20, 2022

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

The Guardian - US · Jul 13, 2022

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.

Ballotpedia · Jul 13, 2022

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.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 12, 2022

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 Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

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.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 9, 2022

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…

Reason · Jul 8, 2022

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.

Axios · Jul 6, 2022