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The Onion advises the Supreme Court's 'total Latin dorks' on parody 1 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1300
The people upset by demonstrations on Capitol Hill are incensed by a kneeling athlete. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 Oct 2018 4 1336
The Persistence of Tyranny 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2018 Apr 2020 5 1914
The phrase "Orwellian" is overused, but bowing to state censorship while claiming to embrace ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1802
The phrase "Orwellian" is overused, but bowing to state censorship while claiming to embrace ... 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 1408
The police know what you'll do next summer 3 Soph0571 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 7 1598
The Prison-Industrial Complex: Why we need publicly funded elections 1 Alison Hartson Nov 2015 Nov 2015 3 2207
The Right to Counsel: Badly Battered at 50 1 Kire Mar 2013 Mar 2013 1 1741
The right wing justices will continue to gut Americans' constitutional rights by shadow docket 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1168
The right-wing threat to free speech 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1296
The Shocking 'Christian' Hate Mail Activists Received for Challenging Religious Indoctrination in th 5 Half-Century Man Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 6804
The Show WILL Go On! Theater Students Stand Up 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 1 1433
The Slants get their trademark. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 May 2018 2 1217
The Supreme Court Is Ready to Make Taxpayers Fund Religious Schools 14 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1520
The Supreme Court Takes Up 'Home-Equity Theft' 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 28 3153
The Supreme Court's seemingly contradictory decisions in the voting wars are unified under one ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 1 1066
The Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials To Violate Your Rights and Privacy 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1471
The Trevor Project teams up with a student surveillance company accused of LGBTQ+ bias 0 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1290
The Trump Administration Is Hiding a Crucial Report on NSA Spying Practices 0 JonLP24 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 5 1231
The TSA Wants To Read Your Facebook Posts And Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You... 7 friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2495
The U.S. Government has issued extrajudicial death sentences for some immigrant children 4 majdrfrtim Aug 2019 Aug 2019 3 1551
TheFIREorg 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 Nov 2022 5 1431
Theocrat Kim Davis' hypocritical saga continues. In jail. 0 Panich52 Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 1687
There could be justice for Trayvon Martin after all... 18 GopperStopper2680 Mar 2012 Jan 2013 3 5725
There is a man in our community who is being harrassed by the police, 6 pennylane100 Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2976
There is no general hate speech exception to 1A, which means that hate speech is protected speech. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 Jun 2022 1 1102
There's a provision that would allow deporting people with virus to countries that will torture them 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1629
These are all over NOLA, on high-end suvs since Katrina. 2 RosettaStoned77 Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 2504
These high school journalists are documenting what's happening in Portland @Clypian 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 34 3046
They didn't remain silent: How false confessions happen 1 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 1229

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They stopped and humiliated him at the Versace store. He is the Vice President of Versace. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 23 2329
They're Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties 13 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 Aug 2018 50 4248
Thirty Years Ago Today: Amtrak Crash at Chase, Maryland 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 Jan 2017 1 2080
This Banned Books Week, we are spotlighting many of the LGBTQIA+ books being banned ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1233
This gentleman right here is Alton Toussaint Lemon, for whom the famed "Lemon Test" was named. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 Jun 2022 3 2736
This is an incredibly disturbing thread. Public defender begins to expose police corruption ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 15 2044
this is as good a summary of how qualified immunity abets police brutality as you'll see 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1353
This is probably the wrong thread but I would like to here from people who know the law 1 Maraya1969 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 0 1518
This is the anniversary of the event in the video. Never forget! 3 Dyedinthewoolliberal Sep 2012 Oct 2012 3 2060
This Map Shows If Your Town's Police Are Tapped Into Ring's Surveillance Network 0 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2019 Aug 2019 4 1761
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This school staged a ‘Color Wars’ pep rally. Then students showed up in ‘White Pride’ shirts. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2016 Oct 2016 1 1550
This Tennessee town is restricting demonstrations 'to facilitate the safe exercise' of First... 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1573
This Texas town offers hurricane relief - if your politics are right 2 Eugene Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 1418
This video is from 3 nights ago, but remains one of the most disturbing we've seen. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 9 1560
Thomas attacks the right of indigent criminal defendants to have counsel provided 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1264
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression Announces the 2017 Jefferson Muzzles 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2017 Apr 2017 1 4664
Time for a quick primer on the law of accessing phones under the 4th Amendment. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 Jun 2022 9 912
Time Gap in Offering Aid After Police Shooting Stirs Concern 0 Eugene Sep 2016 Sep 2016 6 1397
To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports 8 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1395
To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1463

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Today is the Anniversary Of Obergefell, Windsor, And Lawrence Rulings For LGBT Civil Rights 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 Jun 2018 1 1595
Today, FIRE lodged a formal complaint with the Hood County District Attorney following repeated ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1397
Top Cincinnati university cop urged aggressive traffic stops: report 4 Eugene Apr 2016 Apr 2016 2 1593
Top States' Voter Turnout - STATS 0 Equinox Moon Nov 2016 Nov 2016 0 1025
Top West Point general: ‘Valid concerns’ raised about prayer after Army football game 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2016 Sep 2016 9 1671
Toronto woman stunned by police revelation in background check 2 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1744
Transgender teen's rights violated in Connecticut prison transfer, court rules 1 Eugene Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1406
Treating Rhymes as Crimes: The War on Hip-Hop 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1352
Treatment of Serial's Adnan Syed is a National Shame 0 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 1286
Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court docume 0 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1073
Trump administration sued over phone searches at U.S. borders 0 Eugene Sep 2017 Sep 2017 2 1467
Trump and the Central Park Five 0 srcameron Sep 2016 Sep 2016 3 1288
Trump budget could expand definition of 'sanctuary city' 0 Eugene May 2017 May 2017 0 4595
Trump DOJ seized communications data on Congressional Democrats in leak investigations 2 peppertree Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1920
Trump gov't put out a call asking legal immigrants to sponsor some of the 1,000's of kids in cages 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1317
Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails 34 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2023 Nov 2023 32 3455
Trump hints at TERRIFYING USE OF MILITARY (never underestimate Trump and his ability to grab power) 3 UCmeNdc Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 1538
Trump is indicted in N.Y. Here's what it means and what happens next. 2 BigmanPigman Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1846
Trump kayos O'Rielly's nomination, possibly because he didn't support conservative media reform 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 1582
Trump order could give immigration agents a foothold in US schools 0 Eugene Aug 2017 Aug 2017 0 2690
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