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ACLU Minute: July 28, 2010
So what's the lesson we should learn about WikiLeaks disclosing 91,000 pages of classified information about the Afghanistan War?
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ACLU Minute: July 14, 2010
George Carlin's seven dirty words that until mid-July 2010 you were never allowed to say on the radio are:
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ACLU Minute: July 14, 2010
Massachusetts Federal Court Judge Joseph Tauro has struck down part of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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ACLU Minute: July 14, 2010
Six Algerians, locked up at the United States military prison in Guantanamo for eight years, are fighting in court to stay at GTMO. The reason?
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ACLU Minute: July 8, 2010
On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an Executive Order to close Guantanamo within a year. How's he doing?
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ACLU Minute: July 8, 2010
As a general rule, we don't do book reviews, so an exception should be, well, exceptional. Here's a book that is.
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ACLU Minute: July 8, 2010
What would happen if Congress passed a law that said Americans had to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day? Really, this is a serious question.
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ACLU Minute: June 24, 2010
Can Arizona, with its new round up the immigrants law, do any more violence to to the Fourteenth Amendment?
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ACLU Minute: June 24, 2010
The Humanitarian Law Project wanted to advise two terrorist groups on how they could, instead of promoting terrorism, resolve disputes peacefully and work with the United Nations. And the problem is what?
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ACLU Minute: June 17, 2010
Do day laborers -- people who have to search for work every day -- have the same constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly as everyone else in America?
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ACLU Minute: June 17, 2010
Are anti-immigration laws such as Arizona's so contagious that they could actually spread across the country to, say, Massachusetts?
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ACLU Minute: June 10, 2010
Here's a wild idea: How about presidential elections in America, where the candidate with the most votes for sure will win.
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ACLU Minute: June 10, 2010
There's breaking news on BP. In a public relations coup, the oil company is holding a contest to decide whether BP now shall stand for bogus promises, bad planning, broken pumps, or bull---- for the public.
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
Ultrasounds have become a weapon for groups that seek to undermine a woman's right to reproductive choice. But has that weapon worked?
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
The Supreme Court has spoken. When arrested, you have the right to remain silent. So of. Kind of. Maybe.
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
When an agent of the United States government scoops up a person in say Europe or Asia, and then ships him to the US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, may that person petition a US court to seek his release?
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
A man is walking down the street at night in a high crime area. Based on the environment and the neighborhood, the police guess that he has a gun. So may they stop and frisk him?
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
After T&J Towing scooped up the car of John Kurtz, a junior at Wesleyan Michigan University, Kurtz created a Facebook page to tell his story. The tow company sued him for $750,000.00.
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2010
What do Americans think about the new Arizona immigration law that is racist, destructive, and will increase crime?
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ACLU Minute: May 26, 2010
History, as it now will be taught in the high schools in Texas, will emphasize the contribution to America of segregationist governors during the civil rights struggle, the contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, and the moral majority.
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ACLU Minute: May 26, 2010
A recent Federal Court ruling shows that two towns in western Massachusetts, Leverett and Amherst, that have passed resolutions welcoming cleared Guantanamo detainees to live there, got it right.
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ACLU Minute: May 26, 2010
The Supreme Court of The United States has decided that for crimes such as burglary, teenagers may not be locked up in prison for life without any possibility of parole.
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ACLU Minute: May 20, 2010
Let's say after you've been convicted of a crime, your lawyer finds out that the prosecutor had been sleeping with the judge. Think you'd get a new trial?
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ACLU Minute: May 12, 2010
Have you heard about the school in Pennsylvania that was using students' laptop computers to spy on them at home?
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ACLU Minute: May 12, 2010
Does The First Amendment guarantee anonymity to individuals who sign a petition to put a referendum question on an election ballot?
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ACLU Minute: May 5, 2010
A Sri Lankan torture survivor, Baskaran Balasundaram, remains imprisoned in Boston by US immigration authorities, even though he was granted asylum more than a year ago. How can this be?
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ACLU Minute: May 5, 2010
Due to a recent decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the state's Department of Corrections will have to come clean.
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ACLU Minute: April 28, 2010
"Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain." You might want to reconsider that bucolic view of that heartland state, in view of the anti-abortion laws that its legislature has just passed over the Governor's veto.
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ACLU Minute: April 28, 2010
Here's a quick quiz on capital punishment: In 2010, what countries do you think still use a firing squad to execute a condemned prisoner?
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ACLU Minute: April 28, 2010
When and where could a person be jailed for not having an internal passport on his person? The former Soviet Union, the apartheid era in South Africa, or 2010 in America?
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ACLU Minute: April 28, 2010
Should videos that show disgusting, I mean really disgusting, images of pit bulls ripping apart other animals be protected by the First Amendment?
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ACLU Minute: April 15, 2010
Do powerful corporations have greater First Amendment rights than, say, law professors? No, this is not a trick question.
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ACLU Minute: April 1, 2010
"We are at war, the war will go on for generations, and during the war the country's leader may break any law that he says impedes his ability to win the war." Who said this? George Bush or George Orwell?
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ACLU Minute: March 23, 2010
If you are 40-years or older, I'm not saying this is a related fact, but you were born in a time when birth control was illegal.
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ACLU Minute: April 15, 2010
You might have thought that the conviction of the man who murdered Dr. George Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Nebraska, would have caused the abortion wars in America to abate. But you'd be wrong.
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ACLU Minute: April 22, 2010
We all know about Internet access being under attack in China, Iran, and other totalitarian countires, but did you know that the Internet, in a different way, is under attack in America as well?
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ACLU Minute: April 7, 2010
WikiLeaks, a website that calls itself "an intelligence agency of the people" is back in the news. Listen to what WikiLeaks has done now.
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ACLU Minute: April 1, 2010
Big Brother is watching, but Big Brother's invading your provacy may not be the biggest problem with his spying.
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ACLU Minute: March 16, 2010
"Have you no shame, sir? Have you no sense of decency?" These words, spoken famously by attorney Joseph Nye Welch, to Senator Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings are resonating again today.
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ACLU Minute: March 1, 2010
When senior Department of Justice lawyers provide cover for illegal torture, what happens to the lawyers?
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ACLU Minute: February 22, 2010
A high school senior vented about her English teacher by creating a Facebook page titled, "Miss Sarah Phelps is the Worst Teacher I've Ever Had."
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ACLU Minute: February 2, 2010
You may recall the story about Tariq Ramadan, the Muslim scholar prevented from taking his job as a professor at Notre Dame by the Bush Administration in 2004. This story has a new conclusion.
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ACLU Minute: February 2, 2010
A true American Hero, Howard Zinn, has died. But how can someone who is known as a radical, as Zinn was, also be known as an American Hero?
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ACLU Minute: January 18, 2010
Almost all of the 100 people in the world serving a sentence of life without parole for crimes committed as a juvenile in which no one was killed are locked up in one country.
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ACLU Minute: January 11, 2010
Can WikiLeaks.org survive? It's a website that publishes documents that someone, somewhere thinks should be made public, and then dares the government, any government, to try to shut it down.
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ACLU Minute: January 4, 2010
Ed Meese, Ronald Regan's law-and-order Attorney General, who once blasted the ACLU for being what he called, "part of the criminals' lobby," now is standing before the US Supreme Court, shoulder to shoulder, with the ACLU.
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ACLU Minute: December 10, 2009
Are you now or have you ever used drugs, received counseling, engaged in homosexual behavior, illegal gambling or loitering? Careful before you answer, your job may be on the line.
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ACLU Minute: December 17, 2009
In order to understand the importance of New York Governor, David Patterson's recent executive order that requires state agencies to include gender identity in their non-discrimination policies, you might want to know a couple of numbers.
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ACLU Minute: December 1, 2009
What does a housing authority rule that says don't affix anything to the outside of the door of your apartment have to do with the first amendment?
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ACLU Minute: November 20, 2009
A Transportation Security Administration screener at Logan Airport is highly regarded, described by his supervisor as hard-working and loyal. So why did the TSA want to fire him?
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ACLU Minute: November 12, 2009
Since 2008, the state of South Carolina has been issuing licence plates that show an image of a cross, in front of a stained glass window, along with the words "I believe."
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ACLU Minute: April 22, 2010
We should pause to note the passing of an American hero. The woman President Obama called "The Godmother of The Civil Rights Movement," Dorothy Height.
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ACLU Minute: April 15, 2010
Are American motorists who are stopped for a speeding or another moving infraction really in favor of having their vehicles searched by the police?
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ACLU Minute: April 7, 2010
A previous ACLU Minute gave the inside scoop on how radio commentators are trying to unfairly influence your opinion. One way is to try to keep your attention by promising something sexual at the end of the commentary.
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ACLU Minute: March 16, 2010
There are two words I need to say to President Obama, if he really intends to reverse Attorney General Holder's decision to try the 9/11 defendants in criminal court and instead hand the accused terrorists over to a military commission.
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ACLU Minute: March 9, 2010
For University of Massachusetts Professor Lawrence Pinkham, journalism, good journalism, mattered. It mattered a lot.
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ACLU Minute: March 1, 2010
Recently, a woman was standing in a store window in New York City, stark naked, when a police cruiser rolled by.
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ACLU Minute: February 16, 2010
Some prominent Republican senators are screaming at the top of their electoral lungs that President Obama is granting new rights to terrorists. Today's question: Is he?
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ACLU Minute: February 2, 2010
An FBI agent who wants to surveil and inspect telephone records doesn't go to court to get a warrant and doesn't have probable cause or even reasonable suspicion to conduct the surveillance. The FBI agent doesn't get the telephone records, does he?
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ACLU Minute: February 2, 2010
In late January 2009, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year. That year has come and gone.
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ACLU Minute: January 26, 2010
America is Canada's largest trading partner, and that country recently imported something from The United States that should make us proud.
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ACLU Minute: January 18, 2010
Today's freedom of speech question: In a venerable democracy, when a citizen posts online a video of a government official lying, what's the likely result?
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ACLU Minute: January 4, 2010
Today, for a change of pace, we have a hot stock pick. Though the interested investor probably needs a Teflon-lined stomach.
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ACLU Minute: December 17, 2009
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: If you Twitter, have friends on Facebook, or chat electronically, law enforcement is probably monitoring you.
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ACLU Minute: December 10, 2009
The former Chief Military Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has been fired from his present job as a researcher at The Library of Congress for, get this, writing an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal and a letter to The Washington Post.
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ACLU Minute: November 20, 2009
Can one of those TSA airport screeners have your locked up and interrogated because something in your carry-on luggage, which has nothing to do with airline safety, makes them suspicious?
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ACLU Minute: November 12, 2009
A United States Supreme Court Justice gives a speech at a high school assembly. So, for sure, the high school paper can report on what the justice said, right?
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ACLU Minute: November 5, 2009
A newspaper reporter promises a whistle-blower or another source that he will keep his identity secret, but then a prosecutor subpoenas the reporter to a grand jury or a trial and demands that the reporter reveal his source. What happens?
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ACLU Minute: October 29, 2009
As a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FBI's rules for surveillance of law-abiding Americans has just been released.
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ACLU Minute: October 23, 2009
When a person is being held in prison illegaly, do the Constitutional guarantees of habeas corpus and due process mean he actually will be set free? We're about to find out.
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ACLU Minute: April 7, 2010
"Let Constance take her girlfriend to the prom! Let Constance take her girlfriend to the prom!" Have you heard this rallying cry?
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ACLU Minute: March 23, 2010
Let's say long ago you committed a crime, but now your kid is serving in the armed forces in Afghanistan and you own a home and work hard at a job so you pay real estate and personal taxes. Can you be denied the right to vote?
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ACLU Minute: March 23, 2010
The totally cool new movie "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway, apparently is influencing The Department of Justice and the federal courts.
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ACLU Minute: March 9, 2010
The United States Military has one "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that you might not know about. It's the Military's policy on rape.
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ACLU Minute: February 16, 2010
If you're not really concerned about the state of civil liberties in America, respectfully, you are just not paying attention.
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ACLU Minute: February 2, 2010
The presiding justice of the highest criminal court in Texas refused to keep the courhouse open late in order to receive a request for a stay of execution to which an inmate on death row was entitled. The result of the ethics complaint is what?
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ACLU Minute: January 26, 2010
A law that prohibits a motorist from text messaging while driving clearly is an unconstitutional, government-imposed restriction on free speech. Or is it?
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ACLU Minute: January 4, 2010
An automobile driver, as the New York Times so delicately put it, "gestured offensively with his middle finger," at another driver who, whoops, turned out to be a cop. The result may surprise you.
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ACLU Minute: December 22, 2009
We need to have a talk about sex. We're also going to talk about the federal budget, but we'll get to the sex part soon, I promise.
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ACLU Minute: December 17, 2009
A funny thing happened to Cecil Bothwell on his way to being sworn into office as Asheville, North Carolina's newly-elected city councilor.
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ACLU Minute: December 1, 2009
From time to time, school administrators try to impose patriotism on students by requiring them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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ACLU Minute: November 5, 2009
Let's say a US health organization wants to have a conference to plan for the future fight against AIDS. Obviously, some people who are HIV-positive would attend. So, can you hold that conference in America?
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ACLU Minute: October 29, 2009
Here's a quick quiz on law in America: An interracial couple is denied a marriage license because the justice of the peace doesn't believe in race mixing. What's the last year this happened?
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ACLU Minute: October 29, 2009
Can we spend a minute talking about a bill pending in the Massachusetts legislature designed to prevent surveillance abuses and protect first amendment and privacy rights in Massachusetts?
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ACLU Minute: October 23, 2009
Here's a question: A pregnant woman commits a crime and is sentenced to jail. How many states allow the woman to be shackled to the railings of her bed while delivering her baby? 7? 10? 14? 21?
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ACLU Minute: October 23, 2009
What lessons did a school system recently teach when it sentenced a well-behaved 6-year-old Cub Scout to 45 days of reform school? You decide.
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ACLU Minute: October 14, 2009
Here's a fact about supposedly-liberal Massachusetts that may surprise you: The Commonwealth has the harshest law for juvenile murderers of any state in the country.
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ACLU Minute: October 14, 2009
How far can the state go in regulating your sex life? For an answer, you might want to check out the recent ruling in Love Stuff V. The City of Hoover.
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ACLU Minute: October 2, 2009
Do fourth graders have First Amendment rights? This is a question to which fouth grader Nathan Johns is about to learn the answer.
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ACLU Minute: October 2, 2009
May a Massachusetts city or town legislate a curfew on teenagers and make it a crime for young people to be out at night?
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ACLU Minute: May 27, 2009
In America, the Government cannot throw a person in prison and keep him there forever without charging him with a crime. At least, that's how it used to be.
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ACLU Minute: October 2, 2009
The score is 30-7, but this is not a football story. These are the results of the trials of the Guantanamo detainees.
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ACLU Minute: May 27 ,2009
As The New York Times Editorial put it, "It's no surprise that the IT (Information Technology) candidate, Barack Obama, is intent on becomming the IT President." This is all to the good.
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ACLU Minute: September 25, 2009
Should a 13 year-old middle school girl be strip searched when her vice principal suspects her of bringing Ibuprofin to school? Many educators and quite a few judges in America say yes.
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ACLU Minute: May 27, 2009
It's 2009 and the British are coming! The British are coming! Didn't we win the war for our rights over a couple hundred years ago?
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ACLU Minute: September 25, 2009
In George Bush's America, the Federal Government could imprision you indefinitely while it investigated to see if you did anything wrong. How could this happen? And will anyone be held responsible?
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ACLU Minute: May 20, 2009
The ACLU is suing to try to force a company to give up its patents on two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. Here's why.
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ACLU Minute: September 25, 2009
Who do you think recently said the following about tasers? "I am not willing to see an individual on the 6 o'clock news bouncing around like a basketball with 50,000 volts of electricity being pumped into their body."
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ACLU Minute: May 20, 2009
On April 18, an Air France plane flying from Paris to Mecico City was diverted from American airspace because a passenger, a journalist, was found to be on a US Government watch list.
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ACLU Minute: September 25, 2009
In September 2009, convicted murderer Romell Broom was strapped down on the execution gourney at the state prison in Lucasville, Ohio. For over 2 hours technicians tried to inject the lethal chemicals. The attempt to execute him failed.
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ACLU Minute: May 20, 2009
The Obama Administration has reversed its promise to release photographs that depict detainee abuse by us personnel overseas. That decision betrays Obama's commitment to transparency and the rule of law.
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ACLU Minute: September 16, 2009
Cameron Todd Willingham\'s three young daughters all perished in a house fire in Corsicana, TX. There was no justice in that. There was even less justice in what happened next.
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ACLU Minute: May 13, 2009
Northwestern Distric Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel recently was slammed by Superior Court Judge John Agostini over her investigation called "Pottygate."
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ACLU Minute: September 16, 2009
You would think that in 2009 in America, a person who has health insurance and a need for medical equipment that would restore her ability to speak would receive the device that she needs to communicate. But you would be wrong.
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ACLU Minute: May 13, 2009
We all are indebted to the press for standing up to Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel, and reporting on "Pottygate."
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ACLU Minute: September 9, 2009
The US Supreme Court consistently has denied relief to persons convicted of capital murder, regardless of the egregious Constitutional violations at their trial. Now, two justices have gone even further.
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ACLU Minute: May 13, 2009
Information is power. Law enforcement in Massaschusetts has recently proven itself dangerously hungry for both.
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ACLU Minute: September 9, 2009
Harvard University recently tried to implement a policy that prevented any medical student from speaking to the media, unless that student first received permission to speak from the Dean of Students.
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ACLU Minute: May 6, 2009
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech. It does not have an exception for words that we don't like.
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ACLU Minute: September 9, 2009
Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney adamantly shared at least one position, one policy. They both wanted to keep secret the documents that showed who had been at The White House. That policy is about to change.
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ACLU Minute: May 6, 2009
In downtown Northampton recently, 10,000 people marched in the Pride Parade. But it hasn't always been like that.
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ACLU Minute: August 27, 2009
In 2006, the ACLU of Massachusetts, in honor of Senator Edward Kennedy's passionate dedication to liberty and justice, awarded the Senator its highest honor. That award was richly deserved.
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ACLU Minute: May 6, 2009
Five men, who the Bush Administration kidnapped and secretly flew oversees to be interrogated and tortured, will finally have their day in court.
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ACLU Minute: August 21, 2009
You weren't meant to hear this. The Government didn't want you to. So now, probably, you should close your ears.
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ACLU Minute: August 7, 2009
The difference in the federal sentencing law between crack cocaine and powder cocaine tells us more about ourselves than it does about cocaine.
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ACLU Minute: April 29, 2009
A Freedom of Information Act suit may reveal how and why the FBI has targeted Muslims because of their faith.
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ACLU Minute: July 7, 2009
Holyoke Police Chief Anthony Scott's recent call for picketing outside of courhouses to influence judges to set higher bails, lockup more defendants, and impose longer sentences raises disturbing Constitutional questions.
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ACLU Minute, April 29, 2009
Congress should hold hearings before voting to reauthorize provisions of The Patriot Act that expire this year.
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ACLU Minute: June 25, 2009
The recently released Justice Department memorandums on prisoner interrogation raises disturbing questions about the lawyers who wrote them.
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ACLU Minute: April 22, 2009
Immigrants not charged with a crime are languishing in Massachusetts jails. We can help remedy this injustice.
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ACLU Minute: June 17, 2009
There is a chance that The House of Representatives of The United States Congress may actually examine the most egregious parts of The Bush Administration's war on civil liberties.
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ACLU Minute: April 22, 2009
The Bush Administration’s use of National Security Letters continues to threaten the privacy of law abiding people.
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ACLU Minute: August 27, 2009
Want to get out of jury service? Well, bills are pending in the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature that could help you out. There is one problem: these bills are a terrible idea.
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ACLU Minute: April 15, 2009
We should end discrimination against transgendered people. A bill in the Massachusetts legislature would help do that.
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ACLU Minute: August 7, 2009
A federal district court has ordered Mohammed Jawad released from Guantanamo. Even by Guantanamo standards, this case is extraordinary.
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ACLU Minute: April 15, 2009
Western Massachusetts Attorney Jonathan Souweine was a shining star in his use of the First Amendment. He died in April at age 61.
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ACLU Minute: July 22, 2009
We Americans love to commemorate milestones, and we've just passed another. In the modern era of the death penalty, we have now used lethal injection to execute people 1,000 times.
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ACLU Minute: July 15, 2009
What do political conservatives think about Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis' description of states as the laboratories of democracy?
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ACLU Minute: July 7, 2009
Here's a disturbing fact: The United States, which has less than 5% of the world's actual population, has almost 25% of the world's prison population.
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ACLU Minute: June 25, 2009
Before Bush, the "state secret rule" meant that in a lawsuit, when the government has a legitimate national security concern about a piece of information becoming public, the judge could keep that evidence out of the case. President Bush changed that,and
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ACLU Minute: June 17, 2009
Because questions still remain about The CIA's torture progam, The ACLU has filed a new lawsuit to try to find out some answers.
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ACLU Minute: August 21, 2009
Schools in America are family friendly -- places where kids are taught and taken care of. Schools don't hurt kids. Right?
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ACLU Minute: July 22, 2009
The Cambridge Massachusetts Police recently responded to a report of two black males breaking into a house, and they arrested the perpetrator. Ho Hum. Big Deal. Why should anyone care?
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ACLU Minute: July 15, 2009
Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowd, buy me some peanuts and ... beer? Red Sox Nation will love the reason why the words temporarily have changed.
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ACLU Minute: July 15, 2009
For sheer hypocrisy, some of The United States Senate's confirmation hearing on Judge Sonia Sotomayor takes the cake.
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ACLU Minute: July 7, 2009
Listen to the story of Tanveer Ahmad, whose name recently was added to the list of detainees who have died in US Immigration custody.
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ACLU Minute: June 25, 2009
Last November, Massachusetts voters approved Question 2, decriminalizing marijuana. Now certain law enforcement and public officials are trying to undo Question 2.
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ACLU Minute: June 17, 2009
It's the middle of 2009, and The Federal Government is still routinely collecting millions of phone calls and e-mail messages of law-abiding Americans.
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ACLU Minute: June 10, 2009
The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech belongs not only to the person who wishes to speak, but also to the person who wishes to hear. So, I have the right to talk, and you have the right to listen, or not. I hope you'll hear me out.
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ACLU Minute: June 10, 2009
Has your phone company allowed the National Security Agency to listen in on your phone calls and read your e-mails?
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ACLU Minute: June 10, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a report on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to The Supreme Court. Here's a summary.
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2009
Dr. George Tiller recently was shot and killed in his church. The apparent reason: Dr. Tiller performed abortions.
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ACLU Minute: June 3, 2009
The public rarely can look behind the high walls and the razor wire that surrounds our state prisons, but in Massachusetts, that may change.
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April 8, 2009
ACLU Attorney Bill Newman explores one of the truly shocking and disappointing legacies of the Bush era.
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April 8, 2009
ACLU Attorney Bill Newman explains why it is important that President Obama has chosen to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay
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April 8, 2009
Muslim scholar and author Tariq Ramadan is another individual the United States has excluded from our country because of his political views, but the fight to allow him to speak in the United States goes on.
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