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This Week in Civil Liberties (9/14/2012)

This Week in Civil Liberties (9/14/2012)

09/14/2012 – Which legislative body passed a five-year reauthorization of a law that gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government? How many ACLU affiliates participated in a ...

Justice for Reggie Clemons: Not Another Troy Davis

Justice for Reggie Clemons: Not Another Troy Davis

09/14/2012 – Monday, a “special master” in St. Louis begins review of the case of Reggie Clemons to determine if his trial was fair and his death sentence is just.   Reggie ...

Immigration Detainees Have the Right to Due Process, Too

Immigration Detainees Have the Right to Due Process, Too

09/14/2012 – Alejandro Rodriguez’s parents brought him from Mexico when he was a baby. Prior to his detention, Alejandro earned his green card and lived near his extended family in Los Angeles, ...

FBI Says It Can’t Release Documents on Occupy Surveillance Because of National Security

FBI Says It Can’t Release Documents on Occupy Surveillance Because of National Security

09/14/2012 – Just shy of the one-year anniversary of the inaugural Occupy Wall Street protests, the ACLU of Northern California obtained initial documents from the FBI about surveillance of Occupy ...

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Since 9/11, the privacy rights of Americans have come under a sustained assault that would have been hard ...
Ten years after 9/11, our nation still faces the challenge of remaining both safe and free. Our choice is ...
America’s criminal justice system should keep communities safe, treat people fairly, and use fiscal ...
A new kind of intolerance is creeping into our country—one that shrouds its true identity and uses the law ...