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During the nearly 18 years that Nadine Strossen served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization has been a staunch advocate in some of America's most polarizing legal battles, including fights over Internet free speech, abortion and the separation between church and state. The ACLU's membership nearly doubled during her tenure, which ended when she stepped down earlier this year. Strossen spoke to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize. Your father...
...Strict ID laws passed since 2004 - including one that prompted the U.S. Student Association and the ACLU to sue top officials in Michigan on Sept. 18; one the Department of Justice has challenged in Georgia; and similar statutes in Arizona and Florida - fall harder on students than on most voters because so many study out of state. A Rock the Vote poll in February found that 19% of people ages 18-30 don't have a government ID that reflects their current address. And while some states like Ohio will accept alternative ID in the form of a utility bill...
...Voight as George Washington and Chriss Anglin as Republicans' favorite Democrat, John F. Kennedy. Conservative country singer Trace Adkins shows up as the angel of death, and Bill O'Reilly plays another imposing figure: himself. To persuade Malone, the ghosts frighten him with visions of classic liberal villains--zombie ACLU lawyers staggering into court, Ivy League professors singing a ditty about being stuck in the '60s, and Jimmy Carter addressing a crowd of sheeplike antiwar protesters. "If you can explode a cliché or point out the emperor has no clothes, you've got something an audience will respond...
Rita Sklar and the ACLU of Arkansas have argued that the arrests don't justify the violation of constitutional rights. In implementing this curfew, Sklar says, "of course you find criminals, but you stop innocent people" - limiting their freedom of movement and in many cases employment possibilities, and penalizing all citizens just because a better strategy to deal with crime hasn't yet been found. Sklar points out that the 10-block, one-mile area covered by Helena's 24-hour curfew was predominantly "poor and black," suggesting that the curfew could be in violation of the 14th Amendment...
...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...