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...Columbus voters stood in line for as long as four-and-a-half hours, said Sarah Kroll-Rosenbaum, a third-year student at New York Law School who is Just Democracy’s deputy director for partnerships and programs...
Al Gore gave up on Ohio in October 2000. Kerry's not walking away. And with the state economy weak, Bush's approval rating sank to 43% in a recent poll. Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton. Kerry needs a big turnout in Cleveland and Toledo; Bush needs it in the northwestern Farm Belt and the Cincinnati suburbs. Legal fights are already erupting over electionprocedures...
...most coveted newspaper endorsement in the U.S. is expected this week, and it's not coming from the Washington Post or the New York Times. It's due from the editors of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, the only daily paper in the most contested part of the hottest battleground state. Both campaigns have spent countless hours and dollars trying to snare...
Freedom is now on the march—a march that no longer requires metal detectors. In a unanimous decision issued last Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that city officials in Columbus, Ga. may not require demonstrators gathering for the annual School of the Americas Protest to pass through metal detectors in order to participate. We wholeheartedly endorse the decision and applaud the court for protecting Americans’ guaranteed liberties against the omnipresent specter of security...
Starting in Nov. 2002, the city of Columbus required demonstrators to pass through metal detectors on their way to the protest, callously and shamelessly citing post-Sept. 11 security concerns as justification. After a Bush-appointed judge initially rebuffed the protestors appeal for a legal injunction, the Court rightfully found that the city violated the protestors’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search-and-seizure by forcing them to submit to a “mass, warrantless, suspicionless search policy...