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...racist expressions they have encouraged. The American Civil Liberties Union considered this movement important enough to make it the principal topic at its biennial meeting last month in Madison, Wis. Ironically, the regents of the University of Wisconsin had passed their own rules against defamation just before the ACLU members convened on the university's campus. Nadine Strossen, of New York University School of Law, who was defending the ACLU's traditional position on free speech, said of Wisconsin's new rules, "You can tell how bad they are by the fact that the regents had to make an amendment...
...import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...
Rizzo did much to earn his reputation. As a cop, he came under attack from the ACLU in the 1950s for stopping interracial couples on the street for questioning. Later, the Justice Department investigated his department for police brutality, and many Philadelphia cops were indicted...
...While the Court's decision represents the mostserious threat since 1973 to the right for womento choose an abortion," says President of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) NormanDorsen, "the reaction from religious,professional, medical and public serviceorganizations, as well as... academia,demonstrates a strong public sentiment to preservethe constitutional principles established in theoriginal Roe decision...
...ACLU representatives said they might take on the case, Williams said. "They seemed interested. In fact, the initial legal advice I got from someone there was very strongly in favor of pursuing this." ACLU officials could not be reached for comment yesterday...