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7 Nov 2019, 1:55 pm
https://twitter.com/ACLU/statuses/1144797689030348801 As we mark three years since we put President-elect Trump on notice, we’ve filed over 100 lawsuits, and over 140 other legal actions — Freedom of Information Act requests, administrative complaints, and other legal mechanisms to halt illegal policies — against the president, his administration, or those inspired by his victory to cut back on civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 8:00 am
Since the Founding, American military policy (such as it was) reflected competition between two main ideas: that effective defense and warfare required regular, standing national military forces and that those purposes could be achieved—with less threat to liberty—by local, part-time citizen-soldiers. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 9:58 pm
7-17-2008 Nevada:But not when it comes to where a convicted offender can liveA second letter from Nevada's attorney general today offers to "clarify" that a a letter from yesterday referred only to where an offender lives and not whether the new sex offender laws apply only to future cases.In response to the American Civil Liberties Union's question of the whether or not SB471 will apply to those already convicted of sex offenses,… [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 2:37 pm
" The Center for Democracy and Technology's Greg Nojeim described the move for cloture as a way for the Administration to pass the measure without civil liberties amendments, many of which were being pulled piecemeal from the Judiciary committee version of the bill that was voted down earlier Thursday. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 9:56 am
All great civilizations have had a constant parade of eikonos (literally and figuratively the images it cultivates of itself and its state of being). [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 11:32 am
That, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, is dangerous to the community and in violation of a number of rights afforded individuals in the U.S. and Nevada constitutions. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 5:48 am
" The court convened at 4 p.m. to hear arguments and about 7 p.m. stayed the execution and gave the American Civil Liberties Union and the state attorney general 20 days to file briefs regarding the ACLU's last-minute request that the execution method is unconstitutional because the drugs masks the inmate's reaction, denying news media the First Amendment right to report the actual effects of the injection. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
Long before the elections of 2016, the American Republic had been moving toward more formal and open hostilities in the cultural civil war, one with social, economic, cultural and political consequences, that was one of the great consequences of the immediate post 1945 period. [read post]
8 May 2008, 9:24 am
" Condemned inmate William Castillo, who until now has declined to file appeals that could keep him alive, joined Wednesday in a state Supreme Court challenge of Nevada's lethal injection execution procedure.The move by Castillo, represented by federal public defenders Mike Pescetta and Gary Taylor, was welcomed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, which had filed the challenge in October when Castillo was scheduled to… [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 5:28 am
"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action suit against Nevada officials yesterday alleging that they had failed to rectify 'a pervasive pattern of grossly inadequate medical care' at the state's maximum- security prison in Ely, reports the Los Angeles Times. 'These deprivations are so extreme that they subject all the men confined there to constant significant risk of serious injury, medical harm [and]… [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 12:59 pm
According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asset forfeiture practices often go hand-in hand with racial profiling and disproportionately impact low-income African-American or Hispanic people who the police decide look suspicious and for whom the process of trying to get one’s property back is an expensive ordeal that is often abandoned. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 8:41 am
The American Civil Liberties Union believes the conditional release offered under the law is unconstitutional. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 11:44 am
Indeed, the American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a lawsuit arguing that every child should receive legal representation in these hearings. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 8:15 am
USA Today reported Jay Stanley, a policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, asked how the software will work and if the results will be open sourced so as the public can make sure the Textalyzer does not access personal content. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 4:17 am
(linked version)*(by the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic)Brief for The Fordham University School of Law, Lewis Stein Center for Law and Ethics Brief of The American Civil Liberties Union and the Rutherford Institute Brief of Critical Care Providers and Clinical Ethicists Brief of Drs. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 10:31 am
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU Comment on House Vote of the Electoral Count Act Moreover, as state legislative sessions approach, we expect to see continued state-level efforts to interfere with free and fair elections and restrict access to the ballot box. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 4:35 pm
"People think that imposing these Draconian retroactive laws are a way to keep their children safe," said Margaret McLetchie, an American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada lawyer.McLetchie and Robert Langford, who represent 27 unnamed plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit, want to block two laws sex offender from taking effect in Nevada.The laws, which they say are unconstitutional, were tailored to meet standards under the Adam… [read post]
21 May 2007, 8:32 pm
Gary Peck, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said, "No judge is going to say it's okay to systematically violate the rights of poor criminal defendants because you had other budget priorities. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 5:56 am
District Judge James Mahan said the law, as applied to 12 sex offenders represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, is unconstitutional. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 4:32 am
"If Senator Reid wanted to win, he would have put the judiciary vote on the floor first," Caroline Frederickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said. [read post]
