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4 Aug 2021, 7:18 am
Van Buren was a win for civil liberties organizations and some legal scholars in a long-standing debate over the sweep of federal criminal law in cyberspace. [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 3:37 am
Violence directed at the rule of law and those who uphold it is intended to suppress liberty and should be deterred by all prudent means consistent with the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of New York. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 11:02 am
Laura Richardson as general and commander of the United States Southern Command. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 9:22 am
Although Trump, unlike Clinton, took the challenged actions while president, his alleged actions were nevertheless “unrelated to any of his official duties as President of the United States” and, therefore, fell well outside the “outer perimeter” of his presidential responsibility. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 9:29 am
.: The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will hold its first hearing, where members will hear testimony from Capitol and D.C. [read post]
24 Jul 2021, 11:09 am
The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions Thursday against Cuban Defense Minister Alvaro Lopez Miera and an entire special forces unit for alleged human rights violations in relation to the suppression of peaceful protests. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 9:17 am
This prompted the prosecutor to check with the United States Attorney’s office. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 11:54 am
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May on the United States’ transatlantic alliances. [read post]
12 Jul 2021, 9:01 am
Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover before he became the thirty-first president of the United States, the Institution began as a repository of historical material gathered at the end of World War I. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 12:14 pm
This position reports to the Policy Director, Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 9:43 am
Any such requirements of disclosure tend to chill the right of expressive association (which is protected by the First Amendment): This Court has "long understood as implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment a corresponding right to associate with others. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 6:30 am
Fifty-one years ago, Eric Foner wrote that by 1859, Republicans generally agreed that free Black people “were human beings and citizens of the United States, entitled to the natural rights of humanity and to such civil rights as would protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 12:35 pm
She came to this country as a teenage refugee from Vietnam and later served in the United States Army. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 11:51 am
.: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on the need to enhance the Voting Rights Act. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Lash’s interpretive enterprise is grounded in his position that the Bill of Rights and original constitutional text were designed as structural safeguards of liberty and secured “the interest of the several states,” but that the ordinary understanding of the Bill of Rights had transitioned to a greater focus on the “rights of national citizenship” by the mid-19th century. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am
District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed most claims filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. and others in lawsuits that accused the Trump administration of authorizing an unprovoked attack on demonstrators in Lafayette Square last year. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 10:12 am
The PSBA, in turn, argued that the First Amendment protects its right to sue in state court, and it defended against Campbell’s federal lawsuit by invoking the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which shields constitutionally protected conduct from civil liability, subject to certain exceptions. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 8:53 am
On June 21, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed several claims in the overlapping suits filed by Black Lives Matter, the American Civil Liberties Union and others against former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and a number of federal and local officers and agencies for the forcible clearing of protestors in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 2:46 pm
Small branches of the post office—sub-post offices—are run by self-employed sub-post officers. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 2:46 pm
Small branches of the post office—sub-post offices—are run by self-employed sub-post officers. [read post]
