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For three years, the Department of Justice has been investigating Wisconsin’s school voucher program for systematically discriminating against students with disabilities.

Police departments around the country, including here in Wisconsin, have been acquiring surplus military hardware, raising concerns from civil liberties groups.

Madison — Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin are preparing to file a lawsuit to protect more than 500 same-sex marriages that still remain in legal limbo. A representative of th

By Steven Elbow | The Capital Times

The ACLU of Wisconsin would like to speak to same-sex couples who were married between June 6-13, 2014 since they are considering legal action against the state on behalf of couples whose marriages have been denied recognition by the state or local governments.  If you were married in that time period and are facing harm because your marriage is being denied recognition, please fill out the survey by July 2nd at midnight.

Written by Wisconsin Gazette Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:59

In Wisconsin, heavily-armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.   

June 6, 2014, will go down in Wisconsin history as the day when county clerks first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Badger State. It was on June 6 that federal Judge Barbara Crabb declared that Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional in a case brought before her by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of eight Wisconsin lesbian and gay couples. The ban, the judge declared, violated the plaintiffs' fundamental right to marry and their right to equal protection of laws under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Despite Crabb's stay of her subsequent June 13 order and the obstinate resistance of Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, on June 6 our state joined the r

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin are looking at whether to file lawsuits on behalf of same-sex couples who got married after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on gay marriages.