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North Carolina legislators are asking the court to grant them unfettered power to set rules for voting and elections, without state constitutional limits.

A federal judge ruled after a trial that former St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed violated a constituent's free speech rights when blocking her on the social media platform Twitter for making a critical comment.

The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit against the Independence School District to end its policy of automatically removing library materials, including books, after receiving a challenge before any review or vote has taken place.

Immigrants’ rights victories show bipartisan progress is possible.

We, as Missourians, should find it unacceptable that state funding is being wielded as a tool to provoke and encourage censorship. The ACLU of Missouri stands with libraries and our librarians.

Gender-affirming care helped my son become the happy, healthy, confident guy he is today.

Missouri officials executed Kevin Johnson, Jr. this evening by lethal injection, despite evidence of pervasive racial bias in his prosecution.

My father Kevin Johnson, Jr. was sentenced to death for a crime committed at 19 years old, but the state is preventing me from attending his execution because I am that very age.

A federal judge has denied the emergency petition brought by a 19-year-old woman to attend the imminent execution of her father, Kevin Johnson, Jr., in Missouri. Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey brought an emergency challenge to a Missouri law that bars people under 21 from witnessing an execution.