ACLU

Laura Coon | Fathers are losing their rights, and giving up their lives, because the courts are biased. They discriminate against a father only because of his gender, no other reason. Fathers are going in the poor house, where most of them start anyway, just to try and fight for the right to help raise their own flesh and blood. Between lawyers who really don't care and judges who pass out child support just because he has no guts to pass out a fair ruling. Fathers should have their children half the time. This should be the norm.

A key portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional and violates Americans' free speech rights, a federal judge said Thursday in a case that could represent a bitter setback for the Bush administration's attempts to expand its surveillance powers.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the section of the Patriot Act that permits the FBI to send Internet service providers secret demands, called national security letters, for customer information violates the First Amendment and unreasonably curbs the authority of the judiciary.

U.S. government silences "We Will Not Be Silent" t-shirt

The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging that a Transportation Security Administration official and JetBlue Airways illegally discriminated against an American resident based solely on the Arabic message on his t-shirt and his ethnicity.