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...“The arbitrariness around civil liberties has increased and is signified in the loss of independence of the Supreme Court and the judiciary,” he says....
...The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of Apple — and might do so again in the San Bernardino case....
...Until Paul took up the drones issue, it was mainly the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, who were making the running in criticising the drone strikes....
...A prairie land dyed red by violence, “Bleeding Kansas” was settled by New England abolitionists in the 1850s, became a state in 1861 and fought on the Union side in the American Civil War....
...Democrats, the party of union labour and post-war civil rights legislation, have inherent tensions, too....
...“Were there to be a serious terrorist act in this country and afterwards it was thought we had not taken the measures necessary, believe me, no one would be talking about civil liberties.”...
...It’s outrageous,” says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)....
...Ms Simon, the Democratic candidate, was not the president of the American Civil Liberties Union but a volunteer lawyer who represented the group in one case years ago....
..., alongside entrepreneurial capitalism and a devotion to individual liberty....
...In a case brought on Mr Ramadan’s behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union, Paul Crotty, US District Court judge, ruled in June that “the First Amendment rights of American citizens are implicated when...
...Legal scholars and political scientists disagree about how much impact these rulings have had on shaping American society. From Brown v. Board of Education (the 1954 segregation ruling) to Roe v....
...American attitudes towards gay couples are more flexible than they appear. Marriage itself is a loser, but civil unions often poll near-majorities when they are presented as an alternative....
...The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained thousands of military documents that suggest abuses there were common....
...status of civil unions too....
...It is widely believed in the black community that the Bush administration plans to use the 9/11 terror attacks as a pretext for dismantling a constellation of civil liberties and civil rights laws enacted...
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