COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system’s banning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone calls for broadcast. But in a ruling last week, federal Judge Jacquelyn Austin said the government can restrict free speech rights in areas it controls that aren’t public and the media …
— The Missouri ACLU on Thursday sued statewide officials for stonewalling a constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights as the attorney general pushes for a price tag on the proposal that is 1 million times higher than what the state auditor has estimated. “The unilateral actions of the unelected Attorney General to hold hostage the people’s constitutional right to the …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Britney Spears, who is embroiled in a legal battle to remove her father as her conservator, could get a little help from the American Civil Liberties Union. “If Britney Spears wants to regain her civil liberties and get out of her conservatorship, we are here to help her.” “We don’t know whether Spears identifies herself as disabled,” …
