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**FILE** A young man wears saggy pants on the Wildwood, N.J. boardwalk on June 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

ROBERT KNIGHT: The ACLU’s Louisiana pursuit

By Robert Knight

Actress Isabella Rossellini poses for photographers on the red carpet at the opening ceremony and the screening of the film La Tete Haute (Standing Tall) at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Cannes attendees debate dearth of female filmmakers

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

NSA phone record collection is excessive: U.S. appeals court

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Witold Walczak, the Pennsylvania legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU), center, stands between Pittsburgh solicitor Lourdes Sanchez Ridge, right, and Mayor William Peduto, left, as he talks about a tentative settlement for a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union three years ago that claimed police hiring policies discriminated against blacks during a news conference, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. The city has agreed to pay nearly $1.6 million to settle the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pittsburgh settling ACLU police hiring bias suit for $1.6M

By Joe Mandak - Associated Press

D.C. police Chief Cathy L. Lanier (The Washington Times) **FILE**

ACLU slams D.C. police body camera program on disclosure

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Executive Director Kathleen Taylor speaks at a news conference announcing a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington to make sure public hospitals are following the state's abortion rights law, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in Seattle. The ACLU said it is suing one public hospital district Skagit Regional Health and sending warning letters to three others over what it considers violations of the law. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

ACLU sues feds to force Catholic charities to provide abortions for illegal immigrants

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

ACLU attacks on religious groups illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ROBERT KNIGHT: ACLU attacking pro-life Catholics

By Robert Knight

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson hands out pens to legislators after signing bills at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, April 6, 2015. Hutchinson signed into law three bills aimed at overhauling the state's workforce education programs. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Arkansas ‘abortion reversal’ law prompts pro-choice outrage

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks Jan. 2, 2015, after taking the oath of office at the District of Columbia Mayoral Inauguration ceremony at the Convention Center in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

All-boys high school in D.C. gets legal OK from attorney general

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A lone voter takes part in early voting in Milwaukee in this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Wisconsin voter ID law

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

This late 2003 file image obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/File)

Judge orders U.S. release of military detainee abuse photos

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

The dome of the Capitol stands in the background as Stephen Saras, of Atlanta, holds a rainbow colored flag during a rally against a contentious "religious freedom" bill, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, in Atlanta. The Georgia Senate gave decisive approval to the bill, one of a wave of measures surfacing in at least a dozen states that critics say could provide legal cover for discrimination against gays and transgender people. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

ACLU blasts religious liberty acts as ‘licenses to discriminate’

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced a bill to clarify language in an anti-descrimination law to state that it does not require any specific type of insurance coverage. (Associated Press)

ACLU bristles at Bowser proposal for all-boys high school

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

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NSA releases privacy-violation documents on Christmas Eve

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

ACLU's Gift of Starvation Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ROBERT KNIGHT: ACLU stops Christian charity feeding orphan children in Africa

By Robert Knight

The Washington National Cathedral in D.C. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ROBERT KNIGHT: ACLU threatens school over choir performing in church

By Robert Knight

In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2014, a multi-colored flag is waved by a counter demonstrator at a rally by supporters of Arkansas' law banning same sex marriage at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Judges in two Arkansas courtrooms are reviewing challenges to the state's gay-marriage ban. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

ACLU revises gay marriage suit to raise new claims

By Roxana Hegeman - Associated Press

The American Civil Liberties Union filed has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army on behalf of Iknoor Singh on Nov. 12, 2014. Mr. Singh, a Sikh, alleges the Army won't allow him to join his college ROTC program unless he cuts his hair and goes without his turban. (Image: American Civil Liberties Union)

ACLU sues Army over religious exemption denial for Sikh ROTC applicant

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times