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...issued a blistering array of orders reversing the policies of George W. Bush - on harsh interrogation techniques, on access to government information and on Guantánamo, which he announced he would close. "A giant step forward," hailed Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...once supported by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, to give judges a greater ability to limit the use of the state-secrets privilege as a courtroom tactic. "It's disappointing that the Administration is throwing up the same legal argument," says Caroline Frederickson, the ACLU's top lobbyist...
...many issues coming down the pike, activists say they continue to hold out hope that the recent Obama positions in court cases will prove to be an aberration that has more to do with courtroom maneuvering than governing philosophy. "That is my optimistic view," explains Frederickson of the ACLU. "And it could be proved wrong...
Read a Q&A with former ACLU president Nadine Strossen...
...Undeterred, a group of students and rogue professors held a "Pirates Screening Teach-In" on Monday night, drawing some 200 attendees. Before a 30-min. excerpt - which included two threesomes and copious shots of corset-clad blondes - students, professors, lawyers and ACLU representatives stood up to defend porn on principle. English professor Martha Nell Smith, who noted that literature from Shakespeare to Dickinson includes pornographic elements, said it's a student's choice whether to study erotica and "our job together to contextualize it." (Read about porn and the iPhone...