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July 4th 2 1WorldHope Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 973
Being passive is damaging says Julian Assange 6 3feetofsnow Aug 2012 Feb 2013 24 2999
2 NYPD Officers beat 16 y.o. black kid for raising his hands 6 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 Dec 2017 21 3480
For those enamored with local citizen's Police Review Boards: The Devil's always in the details 5 99th_Monkey Apr 2015 Apr 2015 0 2464
Across the Desk - S5:E13 (Oklahoma SB612 - Full Ban On Abortion) 0 Across-the-Desk Apr 2022 Apr 2022 2 780
S8:E11 (Special Guest - The Village Vice Mayor Sean Cummings) 0 Across-the-Desk Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 838
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution, Ending Class Bias in the Law 2 Al Carroll Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 2443
The Prison-Industrial Complex: Why we need publicly funded elections 1 Alison Hartson Nov 2015 Nov 2015 3 2199
Help finding images of possible white nationalist logo 4 AllyCat Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1870
Ruling on Contraception Draws Battle Lines at Catholic Colleges 4 alp227 Jan 2012 Feb 2012 2 2905
You Can’t Protest at the Supreme Court 13 alp227 Jan 2012 Feb 2013 5 7608
(UK) Convicted murderers lose appeal against whole-life tariffs 0 alp227 Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1829
Judge tosses $3.25M award against San Jose (but upheld ruling against police for seizing kids) 0 alp227 Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1857
Ruling by Justice Dept. Opens a Door on Online Gambling 0 alp227 Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1732
DNA samples of felony arrestees OK, court rules 2 alp227 Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2459
Oakland man guilty of murder - no body of victim 11 alp227 Feb 2012 Jan 2013 0 5636
Australian Muslim women must show faces for identity checks under new law 9 alp227 Mar 2012 Aug 2012 0 3677
Indian police still using truth serum 0 alp227 Jul 2012 Jul 2012 0 1843
Denouncing City’s Move to Regulate Circumcision (NYC) 2 alp227 Sep 2012 Sep 2012 1 2856
The effort to normalize drone surveillance 8 Android3.14 Dec 2013 Jan 2014 0 2631
Judges’ Kids-for-Cash Scandal Was Allowed Under Conspiracy of Silence, says Author. 4 AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2012 Nov 2012 3 2741
Students Busted for 'Studying While Black' 4 AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 Jan 2013 3 2299
Cop Claims Chicago's Finest Beat Their Own 4 AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 Jun 2013 2 2315
Mind-Boggling Road-Side Cavity Searches Aren't Isolated Incidents: Lawyers 2 AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 Aug 2013 5 2082
Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich! 8 appleannie1 Dec 2013 Dec 2013 4 3270
Mississippi judge resigns after barring mother from seeing baby for 14 months over unpaid court fees 2 appleannie1943 Oct 2017 Oct 2017 4 1377
Death penalty injustice, not such a new idea... 0 Bay Boy Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 1545
Our Civics Lessons 0 bdamomma Nov 2016 Nov 2016 1 1466
Protect our rights: protests against Kavanaugh, Aug 26th. 0 BigmanPigman Aug 2018 Aug 2018 3 1219
PROTESTS AGAINST KAVANAUGH Aug 26th... 2 BigmanPigman Aug 2018 Aug 2018 6 1486

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Anti KAVANAUGH events this week... 1 BigmanPigman Aug 2018 Aug 2018 7 1525
Are you protesting KAVANUAGH on Sun. Aug 26th? 7 BigmanPigman Aug 2018 Aug 2018 5 1835
FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? 4 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 1843
I'm an Activist in Russia. I Can't Believe What My Life Has Become. 8 BigmanPigman Aug 2020 Feb 2021 22 2658
ABUSE OF POWER: THE CASE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR'S IMPEACHMENT 4 BigmanPigman Sep 2020 Sep 2020 8 1386
Trump is indicted in N.Y. Here's what it means and what happens next. 2 BigmanPigman Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1839
Amnesty Intl: "This is not the Bush administration, this is torture happening under Obama" 1 bigtree Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1825
Judge rules (Illinois) eavesdropping law unconstitutional 7 Bozita Mar 2012 Feb 2013 10 3977
Detroit Police policies changed in First Amendment settlement with ACLU 0 Bozita Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 1651
CISPA Offers Choice between Security and Liberty 2 BridgeTheGap Apr 2012 Feb 2013 5 2450
In my head, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are the same person 0 Bucky May 2018 May 2018 0 1447
Strict Constructionists and the Second Amendment 16 bucolic_frolic Dec 2012 May 2013 4 11110
I've had 2 drivers run a red light/stop sign in a week 6 bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 Sep 2019 2 1911
Felony Forgiveness 2 BudHardener Jan 2013 Feb 2013 1 2726
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Cartaphelius Jan 2016 Jan 2016 0 1851
Appeals court to decide if 1st Amendment should have protected Laredo's "big crazy lady" from arrest 0 catbyte Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 1580
Seattle starts stop and frisk under new mayor 1 cbabe May 2022 May 2022 5 1105
Caste discrimination in America 1 cbabe May 2022 May 2022 3 1066
Philippines' Nobel laureate Maria Ressa loses appeal against cyber libel conviction 0 cbabe Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 1131
Defiant Philippine Nobel laureate Ressa fights for her freedom 0 cbabe Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 868
Fossil Fuel Giants Have Targeted 150+ Activists With 'Judicial Harassment': Report 4 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 1670
The Trevor Project teams up with a student surveillance company accused of LGBTQ+ bias 0 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1283
TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights. 7 cbabe Dec 2022 Dec 2022 4 2037
WA Councilmember Sawant Proposes Legislation Against Caste Discrimination 0 cbabe Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 1299
City of Seattle settles BLM protesters' lawsuit for $10 million 4 cbabe Jan 25 Jan 25 7 696
Clemency for Keith Giammanco 3 CherokeeDem Jan 2018 Jan 2018 2 1471
Ask not what you can do for your religion, but what can the government do for your religion. 0 cheyanne Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1471
Video Letter To President Obama From Cambodian Deportees 0 ChicagoRonin Apr 2012 Apr 2012 0 2751
Deportation Video Wins White House Contest, But Disappears From Winners List 1 ChicagoRonin Apr 2012 Apr 2012 4 1836
Commentary: It's too easy to extract false confessions from youths 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 6 856

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AZ man spent 17 days in jail for crime he didn't commit. He blames American Airlines 5 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 1266
10th Circuit denies immunity to Denver detectives who coerced teenager's false murder confession 7 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 42 2518
The new court's absurd inhumanity: To preserve procedure, an innocent man must die 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 1136
A lawsuit claims Waukegan police extracted another false confession from a Black teen 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 897
$14.25M settlement proposed for man who spent 20 years in prison for double murder he didn't commit 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 609
He spent most of his adult life in a W.Va. prison on a wrongful conviction. Two years later, he 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 6 1042
Enforcing Criminal Abortion Bans Post-Roe: 'A Massive Escalation of Surveillance' 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 6 840
Idaho Falls settles wrongful conviction lawsuit for $11.7M 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 666
Supreme Court prioritizes expedience, not justice, in wrongful convictions 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 3 897
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World 4 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 14 1055
North Texas man jailed for crime he didn't commit is free at last 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1003
'You tarnished your reputation.' Ex-Miami-Dade cop gets 364 days for wrongful arrest 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 3 888
After Roe's overturn: the abortion surveillance state 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 861
On July 4th, Ray Gray is still learning how to be free after decades behind bars 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 730
Black man arrested on warrant for white man awarded $90K settlement 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1023
Kansas wrongful conviction lawsuit reaches $12.5M settlement 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 1015
New initiatives aim to help the innocent fight wrongful convictions 1 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 830
The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 1053
Judge overturns murder conviction of man who said he was framed by disgraced former detective 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 1138
Despite judge's ruling that Spokane County deleted video evidence in jail death 'to avoid legal' 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 1295
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