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Nadine Strossen '72, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), expressed fears about the erosion of judicial independence in a speech last night at Harvard Law School...
...ACLU has had many battles with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the New York Police Department for horrible incidents of discrimination and violence," she said...
...Strossen showed the audience an ACLU advertisement in The New York Times that depicted 41 bullet holes on a blank page, representing the 41 bullets shot at Diallo, with a word from the Miranda warning above each hole...
...Strossen said the ACLU often tackles issues that involve the balancing of two fundamental rights, which can create schisms within the organization...
...cases where the ACLU is divided on an issue, the board votes and the majority position becomes the official ACLU stance, she said...