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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ACLU defends faith and freedom from it

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick gestures during a news conference at the Statehouse in Boston. Patrick last week ordered an outright ban on prescribing and dispensing Zohydro until it is marketed in a form that is difficult to abuse. Zohydro belongs to a family of medicines known as opiates or opioids. Others include morphine, heroin and oxycodone, the painkiller in OxyContin. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Deval Patrick to form panel to investigate racial policing tactics in Boston

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

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Delaware ACLU sues, says motorists can flash lights to warn of police

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ACLU isn’t anti-religion, anti-prayer

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Audience members applaud Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and President Barack Obama during an announcement in the State Dining Room of the White House to announce Holder is resigning, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Washington. Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration's legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the first black U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Holder: Mixed record on national security issues

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Illustration on the offense/defense relationship of the ACLU and American Christianity by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Score: Prayer 1,000, ACLU 0

By Robert Knight

Barbara Gonzalez, public information officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shows a play room in an area where immigrant families are housed at the Artesia Residential Detention Facility inside the Federal Law Enforcement Center in Artesia, N.M. on Friday, July 11, 2014. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited the facility Friday and warned immigrants that &quot;we will send you back&quot; if they try crossing into the country. (AP Photo/Pool, El Paso Times, Rudy Gutierrez)

Border Patrol doesn’t have enough resources to care for children, secure border: audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Pittsburgh police in riot gear redeploy Thursday after confrontations with protesters near the Strip District in Pittsburgh. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in protest of the G-20 summit, which is expected to begin in Pittsburgh on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Fewer black Pittsburgh cops since ACLU bias suit

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In this Thursday, July 24, 2014, photo, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehend men who crossed the Rio Grande River from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in Anzalduas Park in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)

Border Patrol revamps practices to settle lawsuit

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at a rally at Greater Grace Church, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, for Michael Brown who was killed by police, last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting in the middle of a street, following a suspected robbery of a box of cigars from a nearby market, has sparked a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

KNIGHT: Four approaches to Ferguson

By Robert Knight

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo, a Los Angeles Police officer wears an on-body camera during a demonstration for media in Los Angeles. The fatal police shooting of the unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. has prompted calls for more officers to wear so-called &quot;body cameras,&quot; simple, lapel-mounted gadgets that record the interactions between the public and law enforcement. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Ferguson fallout: A call for police ‘body cams’

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville,Texas. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville and Nogales, Ariz. that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)

Border agents cleared of civil rights complaints from illegal immigrant children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

ACLU: Unprecedented U.S. spying has chilling effect on reporters and sources, weakens accountability

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on the lawyering of military operations by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WIDLANSKI: When lawyers are at war with common sense in wartime

By Michael Widlanski

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray

ACLU slams Gray on issues of transparency

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, joined by several legislators including Speaker of The House Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, second from right, and Rep. Jane Smith, R-Bossier City, far right, exits a news conference at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. Jindal is among a handful of Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with record foreclosures and soaring unemployment. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Richard Alan Hannon)

Louisiana sheriff says ACLU won’t stop public prayer event

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. (Associated Press)

Drone killing memo released after N.Y. court fight

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

In the decade after 9/11, Americans started rebuilding what was torn from our nation's foundations. Now we need to reclaim something else that was taken: our right to unwarranted search and seizures. (Associated Press)

PRIVACY: The debate we needed

By Laura W. Murphy

PRIVACY: Verizon case won’t be closed for long time to come

By Brett Max Kaufman — Special to The Washington Times

Left to Right: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chairman David Medine, moderator and Washington Times Opinion Editor David Keene, Former NSA and CIA Director Gen. Mike Hayden, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office Director Laura W. Murphy, speak on a panel called "Privacy in America: the NSA, the Constitution and the USA Freedom Act" at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center, Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 12, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Former NSA director backs House bill to rein in spy agency

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times