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Joan Tuttle of the ACLU said that the petition drive proves that there will be strong constituent support for O'Neill when "he comes out definitively for impeachment...
...people's lawyers had their origin in the labor movement and in pacifism. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the most venerable rights organization in the U.S., evolved from a group of lawyers who defended pacificsts during the First World War. After the War, ACLU turned its attention to the emergent labor unions, and then to the New Deal reformers. By the next world war, it moved towards the right. After the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact, ACLU banned Communists from its staff, thus splitting its ranks and spawning other groups...
...plan advanced by the ACLU and others is that cable TV be made a common carrier. Like the telephone company it would be required to serve all customers at regulated rates. Without the responsibility for programming the cable operators would be released from much of the threat of government intervention. To exercise any censorship, the government would have to attack the individual producers of programs: and the individual producers would be better protected under the First Amendment, "since they would only be using a regulated monopoly to transmit their information. An analogous case might be that of book publishers...
...openness toward the left is also evident in the Party's organizational guidelines, which suggest recruitment of members from the War Resistor's League and the ACLU as well as conservative groups...
...Washington, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a civil complaint yesterday against acting Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst 47 and 13 others accusing them of conspiracy in the mass arrests of last year's May Day demonstrations