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...something grounded in the constitution where they have the last word,” said Ann Lambert, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. “It’s a statutory decision.” Supporters of the bill all echoed Massachusetts ACLU lawyer Sarah Wunsch’s opinion that since the police “hold one of the weightiest positions in the government, we think it’s important to have the records open to public scrutiny.” Wunsch also represented The Crimson in the case against HUPD...
...left, like Belarus, or those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including in an interview with Time - the truth about the mass slaughter of hundreds of civilians...
...just need to be a lawyer...
...Staff writer David Zhou can be reached at dzhou@fas.harvard.edu. The Lincoln Lawyer By Michael Connelly Little, Brown & Company...
...lines. All indications are that, under the post-9/11 program, a softer legal trigger was used. How much softer? That's an explosive legal and political mystery. Michael Hayden, the former NSA head who has taken a public role in defending the program but who is not a lawyer, has implied that the NSA officers who were manning the spotter desks had to have a reason to believe that a terrorist plot might be in the works. But Gonzales, who will no doubt have to defend his government's actions in court someday, tried to argue that a "reason...