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ACLU Criticizes Obama Torture-Prosecution Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Julian Hattem | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Wizner, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Bush Administration Torture, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Jameel Jaffer, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

On the same day that President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, the nation's foremost civil liberties group criticized his administration's refus...

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ACLU Loses $20 Million Donor, Said To Be David Gelbaum

New | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Sierra Club, Philanthrophy, Quercus Trust, Madoff, Economy, David Gelbaum, Religious Freedom, Equal Rights, Funding, Anonymous Donor, Quercus, Open Society Institute, Politics News

A longtime anonymous donor to the American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn his annual gift of more than $20 million, punching a 25 percent hole in...

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Congressional Research Service, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Wall Street Journal, World News, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Washington Post, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

orris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo until 2007, has just lost his job for writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

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Morris Davis Fired: Top Congressional Researcher On Afghanistan Sacked After Criticizing Obama Administration

newsweek.com | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Researcher Fired, Aclu, Afghanistan, Morris Davis, Guantanamo, Congressional Research Service, Morris Davis Fired, Gitmo, Politics News

The top congressional official who oversees research on foreign policy and defense issues, including the war in Afghanistan, has been fired from his j...

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Howard Thompson Jr. Wins Right To Preach In Prison

AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Religion, New Jersey, Prison, Prison Preaching, Jail, New Jersey Prisons, Howard Thompson Jr, Aclu, Preach, New York News

TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey prisoner has won a settlement that allows him to preach at services inside the prison. Howard Thompson Jr. is an i...

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Supreme Court Rules Against ACLU In Case Of Detainee Abuse Photos

AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, US Military, Afghanistan, Abuse Pictures, Obama, Court of Appeals, Abu Graib, Abuse Photos, Gitmo, Enemy Combatants, Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, Gates, Robert Gates, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their ...

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Pittsburgh Man Gives Cop Middle Finger, Gets $50,000

Associated Press | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Aclu, Flip Off Cop, Flip Off Officer, American Civil Liberties Union, Middle Finger, Middle Finger Officer, Pittsburgh Police, Middle Finger Cop, Pittsburgh Cop, David Hackbart, Flip Off Police, Flip Off, Home News

PITTSBURGH (Associated Press) -- Pittsburgh City Council has tentatively approved paying $50,000 to settle a free speech lawsuit filed by a man cited...

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Right And Left Join To Reform Criminal Justice System

New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes invol...

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Expanding Opportunity And Hope For Children In America

Nahal Zamani | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Aclu, Life-Without-Parole, Education, Un, Children, Politics News

Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights.

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ACLU Attorney Who Fought For Miranda Rights Rules Against the Poor

Auburn McCanta | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeless, Arizona, Aclu, Miranda Rights, Church, Poor, Crossroads Church, Politics News

The attorney who introduced the concept of Miranda rights into U.S. legal doctrine ruled this month that poor church members can't eat pancakes before a worship service.

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Robert Gates Bars Release Of Torture Photos

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Freedom of Information Act, Joe Lieberman, Foia, Torture Photos, Robert Gates, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...

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Close it Right: Guantanamo Must Be Shut Down Quickly and Properly

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Due Process, Aclu, September 11th, Eric Holder, Gitmo, Greg Craig, Politics News

The clock's ticking and it's not looking good. As January 22, 2010 fast approaches, the administration is signaling that it's unlikely to meet its own deadline to close

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How My Lawsuit Against the TSA Made Airports Safe For the Constitution Again

Steve Bierfeldt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Airport Security, Tsa, Campaign for Liberty, Constitutional Rights, Ron Paul, Politics News

As a result of my just-dropped case against the TSA, passengers will no longer be forced to check their constitutional rights at the airport counter, and that is a victory for all.

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The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, William Kunstler, Aclu, Civil Rights Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil Rights, Naacp, Sundance Film Festival, Bill Kunstler, Fbi, Entertainment News

At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.

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Human Rights Watch Should Not Be Criticized for Doing Its Job

Aryeh Neier | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier, Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Abuses, Abu Graib, Israel, Helsinki Watch, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World News

Human Rights Watch has an immense amount of experience in all parts of the world in fact-gathering and getting the story right. That is why its reporting matters.

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Naked Pumpkin Run At Risk: Boulder Colorado Police Threaten Crackdown

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 10.31.2009 | Denver

For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered...

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Thirsting for Justice

Deborah Jacobs | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Cory Booker, Human Rights, New Jersey, Newark, Water, United Nations, Politics News

Since August, Newark turned off nearly 600 water accounts in an attempt to collect $29 million in unpaid bills. Newark's desire to collect this debt is entirely understandable, but unpaid bills do not trump human rights or public health.

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Detainee Torture Claims Can Be Suppressed, Federal Court Rues

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of s...

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Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Aclu, Abuse, Detainee Photos, Afghanistan, Prisoner Abuse, Prisoners, Freedom of Information Act, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

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Justice Scalia's Cross

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Scalia, Justice Scalia, Antonin Scalia, Originalism, John Adams, Christianity, Thomas Jefferson, Peter J. Eliasberg, Aclu, Politics News

Justice Scalia takes umbrage at the suggestion that an eight-foot-high Christian cross, erected as a memorial to soldiers killed in military service, violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

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Congress Assists In Torture Photo Cover-Up, Lieberman At Center Of Controversy

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Torture Documents, FOIA Act, Obama Transparency, Bush Torture Documents, President Obama, Aclu Lawsuit, Torture Cover-Up, Joe Lieberman, Aclu, Lieberman Torture Documents, Lieberman Amendment, Detainee Torture, Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, Lieberman Czars, Politics News

Since 2003, the ACLU has been seeking torture documents through a FOIA lawsuit. In 2005, the Southern District Court of New York ordered the governmen...

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A Decision Whose Time Has Come: Constitution Protects Women in Prison From Unsafe Shackling During Labor And Delivery

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Arkansas-Department-of-Corrections, Nelson v. Norris, Shackling, Politics News

Last week, in a historic ruling, a federal Court of Appeals held that the U.S. Constitution protects pregnant women in prison from the inhumane practice of shackling during labor.

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Congress Is Losing Its Chance to Reform the Patriot Act

Michael Macleod-Ball | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Patriot Act, National Security, Politics News

Tomorrow the debate continues over the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act, which includes minor tweaks to the Patriot Act but does not go nearly far enough to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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