Word: aclu
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This is wartime, the President reminds us. The usual rules do not apply. Fair enough. But what worries some people, ranging from Bush's persistent critics at the ACLU to conservative New York Times columnist William Safire to uber-conservative U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, is this administration's propensity for overstepping centuries-old legislative procedures in the name of national security...
Speakers at yesterday’s rally, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Commit-tee, argued that the American response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was threatening the civil liberties of students, foreigners and U.S. citizens...
...should not be frightened into giving up our hard-won constitutional rights,” Nancy Murray, director of the Bill of Rights Education Project for the Mass. chapter of the ACLU, told the crowd...
...flock to the ACLU in the face of controversy, and look to the Rev. Jesse Jackson to help us answer life’s difficult questions. Our publications lean to the left and our student groups embrace the magnanimity of bleeding hearts. I can probably tick off the names of each self-proclaimed Republican at the school—it wouldn’t take long...
This summer, I thought a lot about identity politics and the dangers of racial profiling while working at the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco. As an aspiring civil rights attorney, working at the ACLU was a dream job, and I spent nine happy weeks reading over case files. One of the old cases I reviewed was Korematsu vs. United States. Fred Korematsu was an activist who defied the internment camp order. The ACLU argued against Japanese internment before the Supreme Court, and in a disgraceful ruling, the Court decided in favor of the continued imprisonment of Japanese-Americans...