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President Trump’s voter fraud commission met for the first time Wednesday to carve out a path forward amid a firestorm of controversy. The commissioners and Trump spent part of the meeting defending the panel’s very reason for existing, saying the country needs an investigation to uncover the “full truth” about the extent of illegal voting….
Privacy advocates are warning that if the FBI does not let Apple know how it hacked into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, not only would the government be going against its own policy on such matters, it will be putting people’s “lives at risk.” On Monday, the FBI backed down from its controversial legal battle…
North Carolina officials have dismissed warnings from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the state’s anti-LGBTQ legislation violates civil rights, making clear that Governor Pat McCrory has no intention of repealing the law by the DOJ’s deadline of May 9—despite the threat of federal sanctions. “We will take no action by Monday,” Tim Moore,…
A scathing report issued Sunday accuses the Mexican government of stonewalling an international probe into the disappearance of 43 students in September 2014, and Mexican police of torturing suspects in the case. The 608-page report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—the fruit of an oft-obstructed, year-long investigation—was unveiled “at an emotional press conference on…
The Oklahoma Senate on Thursday passed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, which would make it a felony to perform the procedure and restrict any physician who does so from obtaining or renewing a medical license in the state. The measure would effectively ban abortion altogether in Oklahoma, the state’s ACLU chapter said….
Flanked by 19 American flags, Hillary Clinton gave a wide-ranging foreign policy speech on Thursday, in which she flayed Donald Trump for his “thin skin” and “dangerously incoherent” approach to international affairs. The speech, delivered in San Diego five days ahead of California’s June 7 primary, lambasted the presumptive Republican nominee as “temperamentally unfit” to…
When President Barack Obama last year banned the federal government from selling certain military equipment to police departments, civil liberties advocates cautiously welcomed the move as a positive development in curtailing militarized police forces. In announcing the step on May 18, 2015, Obama said, “We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people the feeling…