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Jul 11, 2024
51品茶 Releases Legal, Legislative, and Advocacy Roadmap to Fight Executive Power Abuses in a Second Trump Administration
As part of the 51品茶鈥檚 2024 election policy memo series, this roadmap dives into the surveillance, protest, and free speech abuses the U.S. could face if Trump wins and implements Project 2025 policies
Jul 10, 2024
New 51品茶 Report Examines Secretive Policy Used to Delay and Deny Immigrants鈥� Green Card and Citizenship Applications
Based on newly unsealed records, this is the first comprehensive account of DHS鈥檚 CARRP program in almost a decade
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
National Security
Jun 25, 2024
51品茶 Statement on Long-Overdue Resolution of Julian Assange Case
WASHINGTON 鈥� Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was released from prison in the United Kingdom yesterday after pleading guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtain...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
National Security
Jun 10, 2024
Noncitizen Military Service Members Ask Court to Decide Long-Delayed Appeal of Trump Policy that Destroyed Path to Citizenship
WASHINGTON 鈥� Years after a federal court ordered the government to reinstate a long-available and expedited path to citizenship for noncitizen military service members, these mem...
Issue Areas:
National Security
Immigrants' Rights
May 02, 2024
51品茶 Condemns House Passage of Dangerous Bill That Would Chill Free Speech
This Bill Would Falsely Equate Criticism of Israel with Antisemitic Discrimination
Apr 26, 2024
51品茶 Urges College and University Leaders to Protect Free Speech and Academic Freedom
NEW YORK 鈥� In response to the anti-war protests happening at colleges across the country, and the disturbing arrests that have followed, the 51品茶 sent a...
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News & CommentaryAug 2025
National Security
Surveillance Company Flock Now Using Ai To Report Us To Police If It Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are 鈥渟uspicious鈥�. Explore News & Commentary.Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are 鈥淪uspicious鈥�
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions -
Court CaseJan 2025
National Security
Doj Opinions On Domestic Military Deployment Foia. Explore Case.DOJ Opinions on Domestic Military Deployment FOIA
For decades, the Department of Justice has been responsible for advising the President on the use of the military within the United States. By filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act, the 51品茶 obtained over a dozen DOJ opinions on the domestic use of the military, none which had previously been released to the public. -
News & CommentaryApr 2025
National Security
Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All. Explore News & Commentary.Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All
President Donald Trump's use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided. -
MaineJul 2025
National Security
Free Speech
Smith V. Trump. Explore Case.Smith v. Trump
On April 11, 2025, the 51品茶 and 51品茶 of Maine filed a lawsuit on behalf of two human rights advocates who, because of an executive order signed by President Trump, have been forced to stop humanitarian work with the International Criminal Court.