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15 May 2015, 1:40 pm
Although many of these recommendations in the report are redundant or too general to offer tangible solutions to the human rights situation in the U.S., they echo many of the concerns raised by U.S. civil society groups like the ACLU, who attended the review and offered concrete recommendations to reverse polices that are inconsistent with international human rights principles. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 10:58 am
American Civil Liberties Union Stop ICE From Empowering Racist Sheriffs: End 287(g) Agreements | American Civil Liberties Union For years the 287(g) program has allowed for sheriffs to target and attack immigrants in their communities. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 3:02 pm
The efforts by the Governor and the republican legislative caucus to reform public sector collective bargaining rights is an essential step towards fiscal sanity and political democracy. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 6:03 am
Just as Perkins reflected prevailing assumptions about American morality (even as they were under challenge from the Wisconsin School’s critique of American empire), Joe Renouard’s diligent account of what he calls “human rights in American foreign policy” from 1967 to 1991 can be seen as a bellwether of the place of human rights in the study of U.S. foreign policy. [read post]
28 Aug 2024, 12:05 pm
Domestic national security and counterterrorism policies and programs also pose a singular threat to Americans’ privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm
As this post-Revolutionary procedural culture developed, so too did the legal substructure of American civil society. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 9:30 am
Pevar is senior staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 10:15 am
Almost four months after an American citizen was secretly detained by the U.S. military in Iraq, and three months after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion demanding access to him, ACLU lawyers were finally able to meet with the man to ask whether he wants to challenge his detention with ACLU representation. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 3:42 pm
Ho is director of the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project, which makes him one of the leaders of legal opposition nationwide to tightening the rules on who can vote. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 4:00 am
Taylor Law amended to clarify an employee organization's duty of fair representation of non-members in a collective bargaining unit Section 209-a.2 of the Civil Service LawIn Janus v American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al, 138 SCt 2448, the Supreme Court held that "States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 4:00 am
Taylor Law amended to clarify an employee organization's duty of fair representation of non-members in a collective bargaining unit Section 209-a.2 of the Civil Service LawIn Janus v American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al, 138 SCt 2448, the Supreme Court held that "States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm
But beginning in that decade, African Americans and other civil rights activists, communists, labor union activists, poor people, Beats and hippies, gay men and lesbians, women, Vietnam War protestors and student activists, and young, urban minority men all contested their constitutionality. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 9:26 am
An LA Times article stated that the inmate was charged with attacking sheriff's deputies and that an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) jail monitor witnessed the incident. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 3:17 pm
Pat Quinn signed a bill into law that brought civil unions to Illinois. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 11:45 pm
From the 1864 Democratic Party platform: Resolved, That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired, and they hereby declare that they consider that the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by military law in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of… [read post]
21 May 2020, 7:50 am
Paid for and authorized by American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:13 am
It is essential for the American public to have a complete picture of all the programs and authorities the FBI uses to track our daily lives and an understanding of how those programs affect our civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 7:02 am
In these situations, the problem, in Witt’s view, is that the sense of the overwhelming justice of the Union cause in the Civil War – i.e., the extirpation of slavery – was no longer present. [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 9:16 pm
More often than not, the sweeps -a form of state action- go too far, too fast.Over the years, the encampment sweeps by local governments have led to a series of constitutional challenges courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal aid lawyers. [read post]
6 Jun 2021, 12:59 pm
We have filed multiple Supreme Court briefs with the Cato Institute, the American Conservative Union, and the Institute for Justice. [read post]
