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...The former head of its US equity syndicate desk, Pawan Passi, was issued a $250,000 civil penalty by the SEC and barred from working in the industry....
...“The arbitrariness around civil liberties has increased and is signified in the loss of independence of the Supreme Court and the judiciary,” he says....
...States have added nearly 100 laws to restrict voting since 2013, calculates the Brennan Center for Justice, including stricter requirements for voter ID (which minorities are less likely to have) and limits...
...Unitarian Universalism, a religious movement with some 150,000 members across the US, has long been considered a beacon of progressivism, pluralism and tolerance....
...Those earlier guardians of American conservatism might have approved of plans to shrink the civil service (even or especially if it meant abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency), but it’s safe to...
...The state legislature returned to Nashville days later. “This has been a session unlike any other,” said Kathy Sinback, executive director of the civil liberties group ACLU of Tennessee....
...Despite concerns about his record on civil liberties, the president is still highly regarded as a moderate leader....
...“There’s this image of an extremely muscular man who knows how to fight and physically beat other men,” says Callum Hood, a researcher at the Center for Countering Digital Hate in London....
...But where are the protections for individual liberty and minority rights?...
...“For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom. It’s often just an excuse for bigotry and it can’t be tolerated,” Alito said in his speech....
...Under the new curfews, teens will be unable to visit Chicago’s renowned summer music festivals in the downtown parks, says Alexandra Block of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, which opposes...
...opinion the court has ever issued,” said Anthony Romero, executive director at the American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement....
...Roger Taney, the fifth chief justice, served from 1836 to 1864 and wrote the infamous decision in the Dred Scott case, denying African Americans US citizenship and forbidding Congress to abolish slavery....
...The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that most of these hearings never materialised, leaving individuals waiting for long periods of time “in inhumane conditions and [who] were subjected...
...Perhaps it was a UPI article last year that reported “religious liberty advocates” were protesting the wreath-laying events and calling the unsolicited laying of wreaths “desecration of the grave”....
...It would represent the seismic shift in US politics that liberals have long feared and religious conservatives have been working for decades to achieve....
...In response, northern states passed “liberty laws”, to ward off extradition....
...Oleksandra Matviichuk, a 39-year-old lawyer and human rights activist, has doggedly gathered evidence of war crimes in Ukraine through the Center for Civil Liberties, which she leads....
...The modern conservative legal movement really started as a reaction to the civil rights era, and it hit a boiling point when Roe v Wade happened....
...The American Civil Liberties Union was among those warning that any system to detect data stored on a phone could also be used against activists, dissidents and minorities....
...“Mississippi is an indicator of where the country can head,” says Vara Lyons, policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi. “If Roe is overturned, more states will follow”....
...Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes this comment as “egregious”....
...Between 2015 and 2017, North Korea procured luxury goods from as many as 90 countries, according to the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington research group....
...The American Civil Liberties Union has noted a rise in warrantless border searches of electronic devices under the Trump administration, and is suing the government on behalf of travellers who were searched...
...She previously worked at the American Civil Liberties Union and is president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She would have similar priorities to Mr Mayorkas and Mr Becerra....
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