More Bad News for Federal Prisoners Hidden Amid Flurry of SCOTUS Rulings
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau WASHINGTON, DC – Legal commentators are drawing attention to a…
ACLU Praises SCOTUS for Agreeing Not to Criminalize Immigrant Supportive Speech
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) strongly praised the still-controversial…
SCOTUS Kills GOP-Promoted State Legislature Theory Over Actual Votes
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling this week to reject…
ACLU Commends SCOTUS Ruling that Not All Threats Necessarily Criminal
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday true threats—not just words…
Judge Again Dismisses Fraternal Order of Police Suit over Police Misconduct Disclosures
By The Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA, PA – For the third time in the past five years, the…
Scientists, Judges, Physicians Join Plea to Free Autistic Texas Man on Death Row for Daughter’s Death
By The Vanguard Staff AUSTIN, TX – Scientists, physicians, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, retired…
ACLU Calls SCOTUS Ruling Upholding Indian Child Welfare Act ‘Landmark Victory’
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – A “landmark victory for tribal sovereignty” was issued by the…
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters in Alabama’s Congressional Map
By Leslie Garcia WASHINGTON, DC – In the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday…
Innocence Project & Ethics Experts File Briefs Supporting OK Death Row Incarcerated Richard Glossip’s Innocence Case
By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Separate friend-of-the-court briefs were filed this week by the…
ACLU Applauds U.S. Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decisions Protecting Digital Free Speech
By Cheyenne Galloway WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday applauded the unanimous decisions by…
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution for Glossip, Delaying May 18 Execution for Now
By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC – Late this past Friday, the attorneys for Richard Glossip, who was…
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Administrative Stay, Preserving Access to Abortion Medicine
By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU applauded the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday administrative stay…
Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents
By Roni Ayalon and Brinda Kalita WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court this week unexpectedly ruled…
SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case
By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S Supreme Court reversed the decision on a re-trial of…
Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists
By Kevin Barragan NEW ORLEANS, LA – An amicus brief filed here this week in the Fifth…
Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson
By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released…
Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild
By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty…
Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court last week strongly…
ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability
By Amy Berberyan WASHINGTON, DC — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking for the U.S….
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Aside, Officers’ Superhuman Claims on Display
By Marcia Barajas and Genesis Guzman WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a defendant…
