Due Process
The ACLU joins the NRA in urging SCOTUS to uphold pot users’ gun rights
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), despite its name, historically has not been keen on defending the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. After the Supreme Court affirmed that right in the landmark 2008 case…
ICE whistleblower says training is ‘deficient, defective, and broken’
On Monday, an attorney and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructor, Ryan Schwank, testified before Congress that the agency's new training program is "deficient, defective, and broken,"…
The NRA and NORML unite to oppose the federal gun ban for marijuana users
A federal law enacted in 1968, 177 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, makes it a felony, currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an "unlawful user" of "any controlled…
Federal judge slams ICE for violating nearly 100 court orders
An escalating conflict between the federal judiciary and the Trump administration led a frustrated judge in Minnesota to release a list Wednesday of nearly 100 court orders he says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Lies, violence, and unchecked federal power
Gregory Bovino, the United States Border Protection commander at large and head of "Operation Metro Surge," the ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, was reassigned from his post on Monday, reports the…
Leaked ICE memo claims agents can enter homes without judicial warrants
Whistleblowers have shared an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.). The document claims that ICE officers may enter homes without consent while conducting certain…
ICE turns lawyers away at Minneapolis detention facility
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that over 3,000 immigration arrests have taken place in the last six weeks amid the agency's ongoing crackdown in Minneapolis. This influx of arrests has…
Lawsuit alleges New York holds juveniles in solitary cells without toilets
Teenagers as young as 12 years old in New York juvenile detention centers are held for prolonged periods in solitary confinement cells without plumbing, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. A federal class action…
Immigration agents used a battering ram to enter Minneapolis home without a valid warrant, video shows
As tensions around Operation Metro Surge, the ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, continue to rise following the shooting and killing of Renee Nicole Good on January 7, the tactics used by federal agents to make…
Cocaine smugglers who don’t get bombed often aren’t even charged by the DOJ
On September 2, President Donald Trump gleefully announced that he had ordered a "kinetic strike" on a speedboat "transporting illegal narcotics," killing 11 men he described as "positively identified…
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