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...People have said over and over that safety is their primary concern,” he said. After the 2005 London bombings, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority instituted a policy of random bag searches based on the MBTA program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenged New York’s policy in court on the basis that it violated the Fourth Amendment. In August, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the searches were constitutional—a decision Romney cited in his announcement of the MBTA policy. John Reinstein...
...demand that kids be allowed to sing religious songs at the annual talent contest. It's not really her demand, of course, because Olivia's parents filed the lawsuit on her behalf. But with three of the nation's most ideologically driven legal organizations - the conservative ADF, the ACLU and the Bush Justice Department - all arguing Olivia's side, you wonder whether it is even the Turtons' lawsuit...
...school districts are nimble enough to navigate between religion and speech without tumbling into a lawsuit, so I can't blame the Frenchtown officials for trying to play it safe. But despite their conflicting politics and agendas, the ADF, ACLU and Justice Department all seem to find the district's position ridiculous, a reaction that suggests they have more than the law on their minds...
...Alliance Defense Fund, whose lawyers represent the Turtons, it's pretty clearly the promotion of Christian causes. The organization was created in 1994 largely to counterbalance the ACLU in court, and it has since successfully defended the Boy Scout ban on gay scoutmasters, helped stop San Francisco from instituting gay marriage, and backed efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive. Now it's on the same side as the ACLU, which makes local ADF counsel in the Turton case very uncomfortable. "I almost see it as a conflict," said Demetrios Stratis of the ACLU's role in the case. "They...
...ACLU, though, it's the chance to change that irksome perception, to show that the organization is as much a defender of religious speech as it is of the political kind. The ACLU of New Jersey filed a brief supporting the Turtons because "we have a dedication to ensuring the right to religious expression," said legal director Edward Barocas, who stressed, a little defensively, that his office has supported "numerous such cases in recent years...