Word: aclu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis has been criticized by his opponents as leaning too far to the left because he supports the ACLU. Lewis said he was disturbed because "one candidate [Vice President George Bush] is casting aspersions on human rights in this country...
Denying campaign allegations against the organization made by members of the campaign to elect Vice President George Bush as president, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is "a respectable, mainstream organization," Lewis said last night...
Introducing the film based on his 1964 novel "Gideon's Trumpet," Lewis told 50 Law School students that the ACLU is necessary organization which fights for and protects people's basic civil liberties. "Gideon's Trumpet" details the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon vs. Wainwright, which extended the right of legal representation to defendants who could not afford...
...event was held partially to "recruit students to help on various research projects" for ACLU's Harvard chapter, said organizer Warren O. Asher, a second-year law student and member of the Harvard Law School Civil Liberties Union. Asher handed out buttons during the meeting which read, "I am a card carrying member of the ACLU...
During his speech near the Business School last week, Jackson lambasted Vice President George Bush for his criticism of Dukakis' membership in the American Civil Liberties Union. Jackson charged that Bush saw the ACLU as an insurgent group, and claimed that Jesus Christ, the Jews in Nazi Germany, and Martin Luther king, Jr. were all viewed by their tormentors as insurgents. Bush, he said, was on a "mean and ugly" side of history...