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...Raging Grannies, an organization of aging activists whose chapters across the U.S. and Canada used sit-ins, songs and satire to protest the war, might not seem like the most obvious target for government surveillance. But the ACLU of Washington State filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests early Tuesday that demanded more information from the FBI and Department of Defense about what the ACLU claims is overreaching government surveillance of this group and 10 other non-violent political organizations in Washington State...
...incident reports it files for every encounter. “It’s not as if the SJC decision is something grounded in the constitution where they have the last word,” said Ann Lambert, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. “It’s a statutory decision.” Supporters of the bill all echoed Massachusetts ACLU lawyer Sarah Wunsch’s opinion that since the police “hold one of the weightiest positions in the government, we think it’s important...
...West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices that we want to nurture,” she added. Under the guidance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the AAR, an association of approximately 10,000 religious scholars, joined with the Association of American University Professors and the PEN American Center, an organization that promotes human rights and literary exchange, to file a lawsuit two weeks ago in response to frustrated efforts to bring Ramadan to the United States...
...Eric Rothschild, a member of the ACLU legal team and a partner in the powerful Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton, attacked the school board members who approved the intelligent design requirement. ?They were selfish-they imposed their own religious viewpoint on a community that has diverse religious beliefs,? he said. ?And they did that without any investigation or research about whether what they were presenting to the students was science. This was all about getting their religious views into the school curriculum...
...Supreme Court precedent on religion as evidence that the court is not unified in its rejection of creationism and other alternatives to evolution. ?Unfortunately, until the Supreme Court adopts a more coherent and historically sound jurisprudence, school districts like Dover will be at risk of costly lawsuits by the ACLU for adopting such modest curriculum changes such as the one at issue,? he wrote...