Word: aclu
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...triple homicide has prompted conservative commentators including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs to weigh in - O'Reilly called the city of San Francisco "completely out of control and now directly responsible for the murders of three men" - while CAPS has blamed the deaths on the ACLU for its "rigor" in protecting the rights of prisoners. (The organization is not involved in the case...
...entrance of the convention hall than in Denver, where the arena is buffered from the protest area by hundreds of meters of parking lots, some of which may be filled with media trailers. "People will be considerably closer in St. Paul," says Mark Silverstein, an attorney with the Colorado ACLU who is helping to lead the litigation there...
Barr now alternates between expressing contrition for his past and highlighting his post-9/11 record of fighting against federal rollbacks of civil liberties. He works with both the ACLU and the NRA and quotes Ayn Rand fluently. His platform these days is a soft libertarian diet of lower taxes, more privacy and school choice...
...Christine Sun, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU, credits the easy win largely to school principal David Davis, who had not exactly hidden his bias. He was reported to have asked a bullied student if she was gay; told her homosexuality was wrong; and forbidden her from wearing a pink breast cancer awareness bracelet that he alleged was a gay pride accessory. Though school board superintendent Steve Griffin denies Davis told the student homosexuality was wrong, calling it a "rumor that the kids took off running with," Davis did tell the court that rainbows and T-shirts with messages...
...ACLU attorney John Reinstein, who is representing Keaney, said that the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see if Harvard is sharing the intelligence it gathers with the federal government, specifically with the joint terrorism task forces overseen...