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Author: Bruce Hamilton

COVID-19: Asylum seekers must be released from detention

March 25, 2020 Updated March 25, 2020
"Refugees have no business being behind bars in the first place, and their continued detention threatens not only their health – but the health and safety of the community at large."
SCOTUS exterior, 11/2/19 credit Jessica Rosgaard

The most serious threat to abortion rights right now is a Louisiana law – and it’s heading to the Supreme Court

December 12, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019
Recently the ACLU of Louisiana filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging a law that would decimate access to abortion in Louisiana. The stakes could not be higher.

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