Closing of detention center is a victory

Workers World

In the course of the lawsuit, the ACLU documented several cases. A film just released on the ACLU Web site shows a woman stating that confinement at Hutto ...

Activist, Wilkes schools reach pact

Winston-Salem Journal

The ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit in January on behalf of Boomer resident Sally Ferrell and NC Peace Action. ...



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Hearing for former L.A.-area resident detained in Gulf nation ...

Los Angeles Times

The ACLU and Hamdan's family say Hamdan has been under FBI surveillance for years and allege that the United States is behind his current detainment and the ...



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Santa Monica's homeless headache

Los Angeles Times

When the ACLU and a prominent private law firm sued the city of Santa Monica recently regarding the treatment by its police of homeless people ...



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An above-the-fold debate that must be fought below the belt

Los Angeles Times

There are times when I want to quit being a progressive liberal, tear up my ACLU membership card and surrender my implanted mind-control chip through which ...

Truck rollover closes southbound lanes of Hwy. 52 in Inver Grove ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune

52 in Inver Grove Heights will be closed for at least another few minutes this evening in the wake of a truck rollover, the Minnesota State Patrol said at ...

Charter school countersues over ACLU religion claims Minneapolis Star Tribune



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US prison plan for Guantanamo inmates under review, officials say

Los Angeles Times

" Closing Guantanamo will be an empty gesture if we just reopen it on shore under a different name," Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security ...

Hoekstra: Obama's Gitmo Plan 'National Security Crisis' NewsMax.com

Does NIMBY apply to suspected terrorists? Hartford Courant

Bring on the Gitmo prisoners The Flint Journal - MLive.com

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Paging Mark Pomerantz and Floyd Abrams: Your NYT Close -Ups Are Ready

The American Lawyer

... of what side of issues I should be on that have little to do with reality," Abrams told The Times. "I don't spend my life simply working for the ACLU ."



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Deal could see Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offenders rehoused

MiamiHerald.com

On July 9, the ACLU sued Miami-Dade County, saying its 2500-foot ordinance should be struck down because it cannot trump the less-stringent 1000-foot limit ...

Sex offenders under Miami bridge may get new home The Associated Press

Giving new meaning to living Examiner.com



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Publicity pleases church of hate

SunJournal.com

El-Kasaby was hired by the Nebraska ACLU to represent Phelps-Roper. Nebraska's flag law defines flag mutilation as when a "person intentionally casts ...



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Sotomayor, Foreign Law And The Constitution

National Journal

It's clear from Sotomayor's post-testimony written answers, as well as from her April 2009 speech to the ACLU of Puerto Rico, that she would consider ...



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Hate Crime Bill Passes Senate, Close to Final Passage

San Francisco Bay Times

I didn't ask the third named recipient, Mark Rosenbaum of the ACLU , because I didn't have his email handy and I was lazy. According to Pizer, the three ...

The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag ... Step Left ...

History News Network

Despite proposed changes to increase prisoners' legal rights at the tribunals, human rights groups and the ACLU sharply criticized the move. ...



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State still needs hate crimes legislation

pride source.com

The legislation was originally introduced 12 years ago in both parts of Congress, but has never made it this close to passage until 2009. ...



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Spies, torture and terrorism The dark pursuit of the truth

Economist

The ACLU's next target is a comprehensive and still largely secret internal CIA report written in 2004 by John Helgerson, then the agency's ...



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Nine US & NATO Troops Die in Afghanistan

Democracy Now

Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU said, " Closing Guantanamo will be an empty gesture if we just reopen it on shore under a different name. ...



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Rapper's Kill Me A Cop Song, Freedom Of Speech Or Voilent Threats?

Glosslip

The ACLU has not intervened in the case but is keeping a close eye on it until officials can speak to Johnson's lawyer, Simon said. ...



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Man's rap song called a threat to cops, so he's in jail for 2 years

Orlando Sentinel

The ACLU has not intervened in the case but is keeping a close eye on it until officials can speak to Johnson's lawyer, Simon said. ...



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Where Is Xu Zhiyong?

New Yorker

Imagine, for a moment, how it might sound to turn on the news one day and hear that the head of the ACLU had vanished from his home in the predawn hours. ...

Immigration Reform Advocates To Protest Against Napolitano in New ...

Feet in Two Worlds

Remember also that the US chamber of Commerce, the ACLU , the Council of Foreign Relations are not friends of the ordinary American Worker, ...



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