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FILE - In this July 17, 2019 file photo, migrant children sleep on a mattress on the floor of the AMAR migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday, July 30, 2019 that more than 900 children have been separated from their families at the border since a judge ordered last year that the practice be sharply curtailed. The ACLU says about one of every five children separated is under 5 years old. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

ACLU: 911 children split at border since 2018 court order

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

In this July 18, 2019, file photo, a migrant father and daughter sit on the sidewalk after getting off a bus that brought them all the way from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico. The group was placed on the bus by Mexican migration authorities, arriving in this northern Mexican city late at night and left them to fend for themselves with no support on housing, work or schooling for children, who appear to make up about half the group. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

ACLU: Illegal family separations still occurring at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 4, 2019, file photo, Anti-abortion advocates gather outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday, July 30, against the state of Missouri to stop a law that bans abortions beyond the eighth week of pregnancy from taking effect Aug. 28. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood and ACLU suing over Missouri abortion law

By MARGARET STAFFORD - Associated Press

ACLU asks company to keep immigration agents off its buses

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Tofurky sues Arkansas over ‘meat’ labeling law

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. Legal wrangling has surrounded the U.S. census count for decades, culminating in this year’s fight over adding a citizenship question. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

The Latest: Civil rights groups celebrate census decision

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President Donald Trump speaks at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on his way returning back to the White House, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration plans immigration enforcement operation

By SOPHIA TAREEN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

ACLU effort to put abortion ban to vote can proceed

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

The Latest: GOP donor weighs decision on abortion referendum

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In this May 23, 2019 photo, the U.S. Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

ACLU asks judge to forbid Trump from restoring citizenship question to census

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Court lets stand Kentucky abortion law on ultrasounds

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

ACLU attacks restrictions on protests in Kansas Statehouse

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 18, 2018 file photo, a Honduran man carries his 3-year-old son as his daughter and other son follow to a transport vehicle after being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Ariz. Federal judges in California have challenged more of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration. Their decision in Sept. 2018 to no longer accept pleas at initial appearances led to the dismissal of many cases because the government deported defendants before they could return to court. The judges' stance is another example of how the judiciary, in ways large and small, has put the brakes on some of the administration's efforts to curb immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

ACLU issues advice to illegal immigrants after Trump tweets about deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A protestor holding a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Red flag listens to speakers protesting against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse. (Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal via AP)

Federal court hears arguments in pipeline protest bill suit

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In a Feb. 12, 2014, file photo, Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Munford, watches the discussion on the House floor in the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama lawmakers have approved legislation that would require certain sex offenders to be chemically castrated before being released on parole. The Alabama bill, sponsored by Mr. Hurst, would require sex offenders whose crimes involved children younger than 13 to receive the medication before being released from prison on parole. They would then be required to continue the medication until a judge decided they could stop. (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Alabama’s new castration law for child molesters a strong pro-child stance

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

ACLU: Georgia sheriff revises policy on ban of jail books

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August Mulvihill, of Norwalk, Iowa, center, holds a sign depicting a wire hanger during a rally to protest recent abortion bans put forward in several state legislatures at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Joe Biden, Democrats eye taxpayer-funded abortions with repeal of Hyde amendment

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - This July 23, 2014 file photo shows a state prison in Florence, Ariz. A book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men is being kept out of the hands of Arizona prison inmates. The American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the Arizona Department of Corrections to rescind a ban on &quot;Chokehold: Policing Black Men.&quot; (AP Photo/File)

Arizona prisons urged to end ban on book about black men

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press

Activists’ lawyers: Sheriff should defend anti-protest laws

By BLAKE NICHOLSON - Associated Press

In this April 11, 2019, file photo, Gov. Mike DeWine signs a bill imposing one of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, in Columbus, Ohio. (Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

Lawsuit filed to stop Ohio abortion ban after 1st heartbeat

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press