15 Nov 2019

Overkill: 13-Year-Old Student Handcuffed, Arrested, Charged With Felony & Criminally Prosecuted for Pointing Imaginary "Finger Gun" at Classmates

By The Rutherford Institute

 

01 Nov 2019

Justifying Brutality: Police Defend Use of Taser, Chokehold, AND Excessive Force against Man Who Complied during Arrest

By The Rutherford Institute

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA (November 1, 2019) — Oklahoma police have asked a federal court to support their claim that citizens who comply with police during an arrest do not have a clearly-established right to be free from police brutality.

18 Oct 2019

Threatening Fines & Jail Time, Kentucky Bureaucrats Prevent Ministry From Giving Free Eyeglasses to Homeless

By The Rutherford Institute

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY (October 18, 2019) — Citing the First Amendment and a state religious freedom law, The Rutherford Institute has told Kentucky regulators that their ongoing attempts to place bureaucratic roadblocks in the path of a ministry’s efforts to provide free corrective eyeglasses to the poor and homeless violates the ministry’s r

03 Oct 2019

Victory: City Settles Lawsuit Over Arrest of Disabled Veteran for Canned Iced Tea, Bug Spray

By The Rutherford Institute

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA (October 2, 2019) — In a victory for common-sense and the rights of citizens to not have their lawful First-Amendment activity chilled by egregious, excessive government-security protocols, officials with the City of Charlottesville have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by The Rutherford Institute.

26 Sep 2019

Rutherford Institute Challenges Discriminatory Law Preventing Students From Using Scholarships to Attend Private Schools with Religious Ties

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (September 26, 2019) — Denouncing state laws that claim to advocate for school choice while discriminating against individuals who favor private schools with religious ties, The Rutherford Institute has asked the US Supreme Court to reject a provision of Montana’s constitution that prohibits students from using scholarship

20 Sep 2019

Rutherford Institute Challenges Arkansas Jail’s Postcard-Only Rule as Unconstitutional Infringement of Prisoners’ First Amendment Rights

By The Rutherford Institute

ST LOUIS, MISSOURI (September 20, 2019) —The Rutherford Institute has asked a federal-appeals court to strike down an Arkansas county jail’s postcard-only policy that limits the mail prisoners can send and receive to postcards, arguing that the restriction violates the First Amendment.

13 Sep 2019

Blank-Check Policing: Cops Stop Cars Registered to Unlicensed Owners, Whether or Not Owners Are Behind the Wheel

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (September 13, 2019) — The Rutherford Institute is challenging the police practice of stopping cars registered to unlicensed owners, whether or not the owners are behind the wheel (such vehicles are often driven by licensed family members and friends) and in the absence of specific wrongdoing.

05 Sep 2019

Rutherford Institute Launches Inquiry Into Government Use of Drivers’ License Photos to Build Facial Recognition Database, Track Citizens

By The Rutherford Institute

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (September 5, 2019) — Pushing back against the expansion of secret government-surveillance programs at the expense of individual privacy, The Rutherford Institute is asking the State of Illinois to disclose information about its participation in the federal government’s scheme to establish a massive facial-recognition data

30 Aug 2019

Rutherford Institute Challenges Government Efforts to Undermine Sixth Amendment Assurance of Right to Legal Counsel

By The Rutherford Institute

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (August 29, 2019) — Pushing back against efforts to sidestep the rule of law and disregard fundamental protections for the rights of the accused, The Rutherford Institute has asked a federal appeals court to prohibit government officials from undermining the Sixth Amendment’s assurance of the right to legal counsel

26 Aug 2019

Rutherford Institute Challenges Death Sentence/Solitary Confinement of Inmate Based on Racial Bias, Mental Incompetence, and Systemic Injustice

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (August 23, 2019) — Denouncing the many failings of America’s capital punishment system, a consistently unjust, error-bound system plagued by racial prejudice, economic inequality, and prosecutorial misconduct, The Rutherford Institute is challenging the death sentence and lengthy solitary confinement of a Texas inmate whose s

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