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12 Nov 2019, 3:09 pm by Jon Brodkin
The ruling came in a case filed "on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at US ports of entry," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said today. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 11:54 am by Karen Gullo
McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and ACLU of Massachusetts, on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 1:55 pm by David Cole
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]
1 Nov 2019, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
She’s right that pluralism aids liberty. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 1:01 pm by Kate Cox
Now, the American Civil Liberties Union wants top US agencies to share records detailing what face data they're collecting and what they're doing with it. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 11:06 am by Emily Beeken
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU) filed a complaint on Thursday seeking more transparency from the FBI over its use of facial recognition software. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 7:12 am by Jay Pinho
While noting that many of the formal obstacles to women’s career paths have been dismantled since her work at the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s, Ginsburg nevertheless acknowledged that “what remains is what has often been called unconscious bias. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 12:59 pm by lennyesq
REGINA GARCIA CANO , Associated Press *** But the American Civil Liberties Union says a growing number of officers have “cruelly twisted” the rules by detaining immigrant spouses following marriage interviews. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
This kind of rhetoric, experts say, is the hallmark of a new era of American political discourse: one that allows, even encourages, vitriolic verbal abuse of children and teenagers. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
” The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Lawyers for Civil Rights sued the Trump Administration for ending a program that protected immigrants with life-threatening health conditions from deportation. [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
” The American Civil Liberties Union called the proposed rule “taxpayer-funded discrimination in the name of religion,” noting that the rule would “let government contractors fire workers who are LGBTQ, or who are pregnant and unmarried, based on the employers’ religious views. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 12:07 pm by Vishnu Kannan
” The committee will call Catherine Cahill, Director, Alaska Center for UAS Integration, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Harold Shaw, Chief Security Officer and Director of the Corporate Security and Emergency Preparedness Department, Massachusetts Port Authority; Angela Stubblefield, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Security and Hazardous Materials, Federal Aviation Administration; Harry Wingo, Faculty, College of Information and Cyberspace, National Defense University; and… [read post]
26 Jan 2019, 4:08 pm by William D. Kickham, Esq.
It made 19 recommendations that were almost passed unanimously, with the one dissenter on the commission being the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 10:30 pm by Public Employment Law Press
DeMarco, etc., respondent.WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS in the nature of an application to release Susai Francis from the custody of the Sheriff of Suffolk County.New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY (Jordan Wells, Paige Austin, Mariana Kovel, Christopher Dunn, and Scout Katovich of counsel), and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY (Omar C. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Kate Mancuso
Although Sessions claimed to have had a successful tenure on the immigration, opioid, and firearms fronts, he faced criticism from Democrats; American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 1:48 pm by David Super
       Advocates of strengthening democracy through an Article V convention insist that this country’s problems are so severe that we must take the risk that a convention poses to civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 3:57 am by David Kopel
When Missouri's original 1820 constitution was written, Missouri was entering the Union as a slave state. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 11:12 am by David Kopel
Supreme Court, lawyers for Massachusetts argued the corporations have no First Amendment rights. [read post]
But with a majority of Americans supporting marijuana legalization, the support of the President, and endorsements ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the National Conference of State Legislatures to the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the STATES Act has a real chance of gaining some traction on Capitol Hill, and perhaps even becoming law. [read post]