Posted by Tim Lynch on August 3, 2010
By Tim Lynch
Nat Hentoff has a terrific column in the Village Voice on the stop and frisk tactics of the New York City Police Department. Here’s an excerpt:
Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg, your stop-and-frisk approach trashes the Fourteenth Amendment. So while Governor Paterson merits our cheers for not being at all intimidated by you, a lot more [...]
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Posted by Tim Lynch on August 3, 2010
By Tim Lynch
Nat Hentoff has a terrific column in the Village Voice on the stop and frisk tactics of the New York City Police Department. Here’s an excerpt:
Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg, your stop-and-frisk approach trashes the Fourteenth Amendment. So while Governor Paterson merits our cheers for not being at all intimidated by you, a lot more [...]
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Tags: aclu, daily news, Fourteenth Amendment, Law and Civil Liberties | No Comments »
Posted by John Samples on July 23, 2010
By John Samples
The DISCLOSE Act, slightly modified, is headed for a cloture vote on Tuesday afternoon. The alterations to the bill have changed few minds outside of Congress. It remains to be seen whether the modification in the bill — the sponsor removed a passage allowing labor unions to transfer funds among its affiliates — will be [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on July 14, 2010
By Jim Harper
I wrote here Monday, and the Washington Post editorialized today, about the lawsuit in which the ACLU is representing a group of people who believe they have been wrongly placed on the government’s no-fly list. I find the Post’s editorial needlessly equivocal and muddied.
The plaintiffs “have a point — to a point,” says the Post. “[T]he [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on July 12, 2010
By Jim Harper
The ACLU is representing several plaintiffs in a recently filed lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s ”No Fly” list. The video in this “Blog of Rights” post tells the story of two of the plaintiffs. “I wanna go home!” laughs U.S. Marine veteran Ayman Latif. “I wanna see my mom. I want her to see my babies.”
No-fly [...]
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Posted by Julian Sanchez on June 29, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
A confession: For all my innumerable policy disagreements with Barack Obama, on election night 2008, I found myself cheering with the rest of the throng on U Street. I fully expected to be appalled by much of his agenda — but I had also spent years covering the Bush administration’s relentless arrogation of power [...]
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Posted by Tim Lynch on June 14, 2010
By Tim Lynch
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is taking another look at mandatory minimum sentencing and Cato adjunct scholar, Erik Luna, offered his thoughts [pdf] to Commission members, along with other experts.
The ACLU’s Jay Rorty blogged about what he said and witnessed at the hearing:
I told the commission the story of an ACLU client, Hamedah Hasan, who received a life sentence for [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on June 3, 2010
By Jim Harper
Via the ACLU’s Blog of Rights, a temporary measure Governor Jim Gibbons put in place to bring Nevada into compliance with REAL ID has expired, and the legislature does not plan to renew it.
But the Nevada DMV wants it. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, “the DMV will seek legislative approval to implement the new licensing system [...]
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