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The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Women sue over Georgia law that added cash bail requirements for misdemeanors

Two women behind bars in Atlanta have sued the state of Georgia over a recent law that added a cash bail requirement for more crimes. The lawsuit accuses the state of violating people's constitutional rights to due process when they're accused of crimes that require cash bail due to last year's Senate Bill 63.

May 05, 2025
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A woman holds up her sticker that signifies that she has officially voted in the state of Georgia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Cobb voters who received late absentee ballots must return them on Election Day, high court says

Georgia's highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state's third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline. That means the affected Cobb County residents must vote in person on Election Day, which is Tuesday, or get their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day

November 05, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A woman holds up her sticker that signifies that she has officially voted in the state of Georgia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Georgia county says more than 3,000 absentee ballots being mailed late just days before election

Election officials in Georgia's third-largest county say they're late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election. Election officials in Cobb County north of Atlanta say they're using express mail and UPS overnight delivery in an effort to deliver the ballots on time.

November 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida on Tuesday.

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The ACLU has a blueprint to constrain Trump in a second presidential term

The American Civil Liberties Union is developing a legal strategy to counter former President Donald Trump in the event he returns to the White House.

July 11, 2024
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  • Carrie Johnson
President Biden delivers remarks on June 4 on executive actions to limit asylum.

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ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border

President Biden is using new executive actions to block migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border. The ACLU says this goes against U.S. asylum laws.

June 13, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in the Fulton County Government Center during a news conference, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. Donald Trump and several allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis sued over incarcerated people waiting in jail without indictments

The Atlanta nonprofit Barred Business Foundation is suing Fulton County DA Fani Willis for allegedly failing to inform a judge when someone is held in jail on felony charges without being indicted for longer than 45 days.

March 21, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
This image provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows construction equipment set on fire Saturday, March 4, 2023 by a group protesting the planned public safety training center, according to police. The trial was delayed Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, for the first defendant among dozens indicted last summer under Georgia's anti-racketeering law on allegations related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta.

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Court again delays racketeering trial against activist accused in violent 'Stop Cop City' protest

A racketeering trial in Georgia is again being delayed for the first defendant indicted in protests against the planned police training facility critics call "Cop City." Opening arguments had been expected to begin in the case against 19-year-old Ayla King of Massachusetts.

January 10, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump during a trial in New York on Tuesday. A judge in a different case — happening in Washington, D.C. — issued a limited gag order that the ACLU said sweeps too broadly in restraining Trump's speech.

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Siding with Trump, the ACLU says a judge's gag order in Jan. 6 case is too sweeping

The ACLU says a judge's gag order against former President Trump restricts too much of his speech on matters of public importance.

October 25, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States.

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Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

August 16, 2023
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Protester outside the Kentucky Supreme Court chambers rally in favor of abortion rights as the Kentucky Supreme Court hears arguments whether to temporarily pause the state's abortion ban in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

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Kentucky high court upholds state abortion bans while case continues

The state Supreme Court kept two state bans in place after Kentucky voters signaled support for abortion rights at the ballot box last November.

February 16, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Sandra Bucciero and her son Luke canvass for Proposal 3 last weekend in Dearborn, Mich. Voters approved the amendment protecting abortion rights.

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After wins at the ballot, abortion rights groups want to 'put this to the people'

Victories in several states this year have abortion rights advocates looking at where they can next take the fight directly to voters.

November 10, 2022
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  • Sarah McCammon
U.S. Supreme Court

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Political Rewind: The right to be 'let alone': Could Georgia's privacy law be used vs. abortion ban?

Thursday on Political Rewind: The ACLU is suing the state over a six-week ban on abortions, citing Georgia's constitutional right to privacy. Listen in to our special panel examine the state constitution's history and its potential relevance to future high-profile cases.

August 11, 2022
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  • Chase McGee and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
 Attorney Julia Stone speaks with reporters outside the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse in Atlanta. Stone was one of the attorneys who presented arguments Monday in a case that could put a hold on Georgia’s six-week abortion ban.

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Georgia’s anti-abortion law could again be temporarily blocked

 

A Fulton County judge could soon decide whether to once again temporarily block Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, which a federal appeals court allowed to take effect last month.

August 09, 2022
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  • Ross Williams
Travis McMichael

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Political Rewind: Inflation Reduction Act; McMichaels sentencing; ACLU abortion law challenge

Today on Political Rewind: The three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery will face a judge again today. Plus, Sen. Raphael Warnock's push to cap insulin at $35 monthly for everyone is blocked by Republicans. Also, the ACLU's challenge to Georgia's six-week abortion ban heads to court today.

August 08, 2022
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  • Donna Lowry and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
Amber Heard has filed a countersuit against Johnny Depp, seeking $100 million in damages and saying his legal team falsely accused her of fabricating claims against Depp. The former couple are seen here in court last week.

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The ACLU says Amber Heard has paid less than half of her $3.5 million donation pledge

The actor made the pledge as she ended her marriage to Johnny Depp, saying she would split $7 million between the ACLU and a children's hospital. Depp's defamation case against Heard is ongoing.

April 30, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
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