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• US threatened Yahoo with $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal

  11 Sep 2014: Company releases 1,500 documents from failed suit against NSA over user data requests and cooperation with Prism compliance

• Congress shrugs off legal concerns to support Obama over Isis offensive

  11 Sep 2014: John Boeher says president’s plans may not go far enough but insists ‘We ought to give the president what he’s asking for’

• Pennsylvania challenged over execution drugs secrecy in federal court

  11 Sep 2014: The Guardian and three Pennsylvania newspapers have asked judge to unseal set of legal documents that contain hidden details about the source of state’s lethal injection drugs

• Gay marriage at the supreme court: a matter of when, not if

  11 Sep 2014: Experts say constitutionality of gay marriage will inevitably return to the docket, as appeals courts strike down state laws

• Missouri executes Earl Ringo Jr after rejecting concerns over drugs used

  10 Sep 2014: Confessed double murderer put to death in process that involved midazolam, which is linked to botched executions

• Texas execution on course despite claims that drug supply expired

  9 Sep 2014: Lawyers for Willie Trottie, scheduled to die Wednesday night, question secrecy around drugs and whether they could botch procedure

• Federal appeals court hears argument that gay marriage harms children

  9 Sep 2014: Judges on ninth circuit appeals court, which overturned California’s Proposition 8 in 2012, challenge defenders of marriage ban

• The police body-cam peep show: are you ready to give up your privacy, too?

  6 Sep 2014: Trevor Timm: It’s about time we recorded the cops. But when the camera’s rolling on everybody, can you really root out the bad?

• We may never know who witnessed Clayton Lockett's execution

  5 Sep 2014: The report into Oklahoma’s botched execution cited medical failures but kept secret the identities of the 36 witnesses

• Oklahoma state report on botched lethal injection cites medical failures

  4 Sep 2014: Long-awaited state investigation into execution of Clayton Lockett recommends contingency plan for botched procedures

• Angola Three inmate in longest solitary confinement seeking damages in court

  4 Sep 2014: Albert Woodfox, on lockdown in a small cell for 40 years, now seeking legal permission to sue the Louisiana prison service

• Michael Brown's juvenile records could be released under court order

  3 Sep 2014: Judge to decide whether to grant media requests to release records of Missouri teenager who was killed by a police officer

• NSA bulk collection of phone data under scrutiny as federal case opens

  2 Sep 2014: Justice Department officials face pointed questions on opening day of case that could push NSA privacy to supreme court

• My first Burning Man: confessions of a conservative from Washington

  2 Sep 2014: Grover Norquist: To everyone who whined about this free-market crusader from DC joining liberal hippies in the desert: listen to the Burners!

• What Texas’s controversial abortion law means for women in the state

  2 Sep 2014: A federal judge has temporarily prevented the closure of dozens of abortion clinics in Texas. Our map shows how a state appeal against the ruling would leave hundreds of thousands of women without access to services

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