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The Courts of Justice Committee voted 14-4 to send Del. Bob Marshall's so-called "personhood" bill to the House floor, where it will be up for a final vote Tuesday.

Bozell: It's 'Hilarious' CNN Suspended Roland Martin for Inoffensive Tweet; Maybe 'Lefty Loons at MSNBC' Can 'Scoop Him Up' Now Julie Rovner, NPR's on-staff shill for ObamaCare , filed an unashamedly one-sided report on Friday's Morning Edition about the controversial Obama administration mandate that forces religious institutions to include ... (more)

February 10 - The Obama administration today announced that it would modify its policy on contraception insurance coverage.

Supporters of a war memorial cross deemed unconstitutional last year by a federal court rallied at the landmark on Thursday as lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, amid a growing fight nationwide over the use of religious symbols to honor fallen troops.

In 2002, state lawmakers in Massachusetts approved legislation requiring most employers to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees.

In The Life Media celebrates 20 years, and the group's executive director says that although acceptance of LGBT people has spread dramatically since its first show, the need to tell our stories hasn't gone away.

A sharply divided Supreme Judicial Court said today that a teenage boy accused of statutory rape may have been a victim of gender discrimination because authorities did not charge the three preteen girls with whom he allegedly had consensual sex.

Phoenix - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer today said she will implement the state's voter-approved medical marijuana law, nine days after a federal judge granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union to throw out a lawsuit filed by Brewer seeking to strike it down.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Bloomfield residents over a Ten Commandments monument displayed at City Hall.

A bill has passed in the House and Senate this week that would increase the presence of drones in U.S. civilian airspace.

Doug Honig, ACLU of Washington, 326-5272 Robyn Shepherd, ACLU national, 519-7829 or 549-2666; media@aclu.org OLYMPIA, Wash.

Shawnee County will pay $75,000 in a settlement with a legal magazine for the jail's policy that prohibited it and other publications.

VILLE PLATTE, La. - The American Civil Liberties Union has amended its complaint against Ville Platte and the city's late-night walking curfew.

Christopher M. Robarge of Worcester has been named Central Massachusetts field coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Benjamin Franklin kicks an informative and hilarious rhyme about transparency and First Amendment protections for pro and amateur photographers in the latest video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt's open collaborative production company, hitRECord.

Civil rights groups in Las Vegas are protesting a U.S. Department of Justice decision not to launch a probe of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department use of deadly force policies, at least until the department takes part in an alternative best practices review.

For many years, conservatives have considered the ACLU just another left-wing activist organization, cloaked in only the veneer of civil liberties.A Asked of their defense of the Constitution, more than a few conservatives would ask just when the ACLU bothers to fight for Second Amendment rights.A The ACLU protests this perception, pointing to a ... (more)

In August 2010, on the very day that Judge Vaughn Walker issued his ruling invalidating Prop 8, the ACLU of Southern California issued a press release hailing the "landmark" decision.

A federal judge's decision to bar officials in an adjoining county from having Christian prayers at public meetings will have no effect - at least right away - on how Henry County and Martinsville officials pray at meetings.

Sup. Jane Kim has introduced legislation to the Board of Supervisors calling for a re-examination of the San Francisco Police Department's participation in some aspects of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which was created by the Federal Bureau of Investigations to do domestic surveillance.