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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Protesters on Eve of the Election

Police violence in Graham, N.C., over the weekend cited as a violation of constitutional rights and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT TO PROTECT INCARCERATED PEOPLE AT THE DEADLIEST FEDERAL PRISON

In response to intensifying COVID-19 outbreaks at the federal prison complex in Butner, North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and Winston & Strawn filed a class-action lawsuit today seeking