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Shattuck, legislative director of the American can Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU), testified that "the available evidence is that Mr. Meese has been centrally involved in directing or approving many of the civil rights action taken by the Justice Department" that have led to a breakdown in the enforcement of laws preventing school, employment and housing discrimination...
Shattuck yesterday denied that he or the ACLU were taking a stance on the Meese nomination but said he only wanted to "tell of the failure of the Justice Department to enforce civil rights legislation," adding that "we would have done the same with any nominee...
...ACLU asked to testify at the hearings in order to "urge the committee to closely question Mr. Meese on his views on civil rights and to call for a change in the direction of civil rights enforcement...
...There is an educational crisis in America today," Shattuck says, adding, "Issues of education and public policy facing Harvard and universities will be just as, if not more challenging than much of my ACLU work...
...battling government secrecy is no novelty for the Washington veteran. Shattuck and the ACLU have consistently opposed the Reagan Administration's effort to force 130,000 federal employees to sign secrecy agreements requiring them to obtain government clearance before speaking publicly or writing about issues within their work. Prior to that, the 1966 Yale graduate played an influential role in persuading Congress not to roll back the Freedom of Information Act, a key legislative safeguard for academic freedom...