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Could litigation over the Occupy movement strengthen First Amendment rights for protesters?

A GOP win in November would move the most conservative bench in history even further to the right.

The Supreme Court—as well as the Obama administration—upholds the right of the world’s biggest jailer to strip everyone who comes into its grasp.

To its shame, the Obama administration continues to defend its role in the case of a jailed Yemeni journalist.

A former ACLU attorney points out that corporate spending on political campaigns is not “free speech” deserving First Amendment protection.

Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise.

The individual mandate is not a threat to fundamental liberties.

With Obama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the prison becomes a permanent fixture.

With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the president has brought Guantánamo-style justice to the United States.

The National Defense Authorization Act would authorize indefinite military detention for US citizens, stripping Americans of their constitutional rights.