Search for: "AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION" Results 361 - 380 of 6,448
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
23 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
It estimates that 4.1% of those convicted of capital crimes are innocent.Again, Coulter pays no attention to the facts that explain why Americans and some of her conservative allies are justifiably concerned about the risk of false convictions.In the end, Coulter, relies on the old conservative canard, that opponents of capital punishment only support using DNA when it helps, as she writes, put “murderers on the street…(Just not their streets)”, but not when it is used to… [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 1:02 pm by Gillian Branstetter
American Civil Liberties Union Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
Then, in 1791, the free state of Vermont became the fourteenth state of the Union, bringing the count to six. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  The Court shifted the focus of constitutional law from political economy to civil liberties and civil rights, and a new generation of liberal lawyers and scholars learned to speak in the increasingly elaborate doctrinal language the Court devised to regulate those spheres. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Billions at Stake as Online Fundraising Practices Turn Off Voters MSN – Jessica Piper (Politico) | Published: 1/17/2023 Llyod Cotler, the founder of Banter Messaging, advises friends and family to write a check if they want to make political contributions and avoid online giving, lest their emails and phone numbers end up on lists that recirculate through the campaign world for eternity. [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 4:58 pm by Levin Papantonio
 Disability Rights New Mexico (DRNM) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to compel the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) to offer medication to prisoners suffering from opioid use disorder.The Albuquerque Journal reported on the lawsuit in December 2022.Currently, inmates addicted to fentanyl or heroin endure “painful withdrawal symptoms, high risk of relapse,… [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 3:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The probe is based on a complaint of discrimination lodged last summer by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said ACLU attorney Chloe Kempf. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 11:00 am by Arianna Morseau
American Civil Liberties Union of Montana Executive Director. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:17 am by Kenneth Propp
When the declaration was issued, many civil society groups complained that they had not been adequately consulted during the negotiation process. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by Terry Hart
Two weeks after Ringer’s remarks, given in front of the Copyright Society of New York, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice would begin markup of S.22, leading to President Gerald Ford signing the bill into law October 19, 1976. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 4:24 am by Immigration Prof
Jonathan Blazer, the American Civil Liberties Union’s director of border strategies, had the... [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 9:00 pm by Ryan J. Farrick
In its lawsuit, the A.C.L.U. and other immigrant advocacy organizations claimed that the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office violated state law by transferring undocumented immigrants to federal deportation authorities. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
A century-and-a-half after the Civil War, some places in the South—and the American political system—remain scarred by the violence and destruction the South brought upon itself. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 4:00 pm by Petrelli Previtera, LLC
The ruling was the result of a lawsuit brought in 2013 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) on behalf of 23 plaintiffs. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Just recall the sad fate of Lani Guinier when she was nominated by President Clinton to head the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Justice. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
But that frame is easily applied to defining fellow American citizens as not real Americans either. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 5:09 am by Scott Bomboy
American Civil Liberties Union, a unanimous court struck down important parts of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (or CDA) as unconstitutional. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 3:36 pm by Rick Hasen
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Mississippi, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP,… Continue reading The post “Civil Rights Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Over Mississippi’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]