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...release dozens of photos of American soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The justices cited an October change to federal law that allows the Secretary of Defense to withhold the pictures. President Obama did not initially oppose the request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to make the images public but reversed course after advisers convinced him the images could endanger U.S. troops by stoking anti-American sentiment. "We continue to believe that the photos should be released," ACLU legal director Steven Shapiro said. "No democracy has ever been made stronger by suppressing evidence of its own misconduct...
...ACLU is not the only American icon to take up the cause of Gypsies. At a concert earlier this year in Romania, Madonna told the crowd that discrimination of Gypsies should end. The crowd responded to her with boos and jeers. This response shows just how strong the underlying hatred against Gypsies has become...
...these pieces take time," says Christopher Anders, the ACLU's senior legislative counsel. "It's hard to see how the government can short-circuit the significant start-up time that's going to be needed. "After all this work," he said of the commissions, "we'll see if they end up getting used...
Parker says the law was so vague that she couldn't offer advice, but she did put out the word to defense attorneys that should they wind up representing someone accused of breaking the law, the ACLU wanted to hear about it. Nichols' March apprehension is one of two religion-based arrests that Parker is aware of. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...others think the ACLU is missing the point. The premise of the law is sound, says Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law expert at Harvard. "If the moment you enter a church you don a cloak of immunity from the rule of law, then churches would become sanctuaries for crime," says Tribe. (Read "The Vatican Rethinks Laws on Abuse...