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24 Jun 2017, 10:37 am by Bill Otis
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and the American Civil Liberties Union, there is broad consensus that the "lock them all up and throw away the key" approach embodied in mandatory minimum drug sentences is counterproductive, negatively affecting our ability to assure the safety of our communities.Where to start? [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 9:55 am by Ken Tanabe
He passed the request to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who assigned two young lawyers to the case: Bernard Cohen and Philip J. [read post]
2 May 2017, 9:58 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
The case highlights a broader point about deaths in custody that some organizations, notably the American Civil Liberties Union, have been making for some time. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 8:30 pm by Jon Katz
I first met Steve in 1991 at a reception at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC, legislative office after a death penalty oral argument by Charles Ogletree. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 11:17 am by Autumn Callan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed the case on behalf [MyNorthwest report] of The Episcopal Diocese, Real Change and two homeless individuals who claim to have lost property after the city confiscated and... [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 2:32 pm by Timothy Edgar
As such, General Flynn might want to call the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 12:20 pm by Kent Scheidegger
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined the American Civil Liberties Union's case in federal court in Brooklyn. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 1:30 pm
” The film was a response to a piece of Red Scare propaganda, “Operation Abolition,” which was produced by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and depicted civil liberties activists in San Francisco as violent “communist agents” bent on destroying the fabric of America. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 10:12 am by Bill Otis
The American Civil Liberties Union has also targeted Chicago police, and the department in August 2015 agreed to track investigatory stops and pat-downs to avert a lawsuit. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 6:14 am by Jim Sedor
FloridaShining a Light on Lobbyists, New Efforts to Curb Their InfluenceTallahassee Democrat – James Call | Published: 12/18/2016 It is a new era in Washington, D.C. and Tallahassee, and the winners of the November election are imposing new realities on how lobbyists can operate. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 8:18 am by Cannabis Law Group
But then, we consider a joint report by the Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union that shows the 575,000 marijuana arrests in 2015 for low-level personal use last year numbered 13.6 percent more than the 506,000 arrests made for all violent crimes that same year – including for murder, rape and serious assaults. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 10:34 am by Emelina Perez
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed the lawsuit [JURIST report] last year against James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, who allegedly designed and persuaded the CIA to adopt their torture techniques as official... [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 7:30 am
The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three men — Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, Gul Rahman — who were tortured using methods developed by the CIA-contracted psychologists, James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 10:29 pm by Edward A. Fallone
I received a phone call from Larry Dupuis of the Milwaukee Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in November of 2003. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 5:00 am
Though she had plans to donate the money, in full, to her two favorite charities – the American Civil Liberties Union, with a focus on battling violence against women, and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles - it seems that her ex-husband might be looking to cut her out of the donation picture. [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 7:23 am by Ronald Collins
” Justice Thurgood Marshall embraced a competing vision; it “refused to acquiesce to outdated notions of ‘liberty. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 7:30 am
The encounter in the hotel room was a breaking point — I contacted the American Civil Liberties Union and lawyered up. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 11:53 am by Cody M. Poplin
Yesterday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Central Intelligence Agency released over 50 documents related to the agency's enhanced interrogation and rendition program during the Bush administration. [read post]