Today, the ACLU released a series of memos exchanged between the Justice Department and the CIA from 2002 through 2004. According to Raw Story, the memos effectively say...
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CIA memos say ’specific intent’ of ‘pain and suffering’ necessary for interrogations to be considered torture.
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COPA suffers another blow
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InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools (among other institutions)...
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Child Online Protection Act Struck Down
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A federal court has upheld a ban on a law that would criminalize protected speech on the Internet.The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the Child Online...
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Court Rules Online Protection Act Unconstitutional
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The Child Online Protection Act has been law for 10 years, but not enforced due to litigation from the ACLU. Today, The Third Circuit of the US Court of Appeals upheld...
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Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism
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Doing journalism at its most basic level is a combination of two essential tasks. The first is reporting — gathering information via research, interviews, etc. The...
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Deepak Chopra: The Army Fights "With God on Our Side"
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An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: The ACLU has asked the U.S. Naval Academy to end prayers at mandatory meals, and yet...
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ACLU To Lobby Florida School District To Abandon Abstinence-Only Sex Education
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The American Civil Liberties Union recently announced that it plans to lobby the Volusia County School District in Florida to abandon its abstinence-only education...
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ACLU Challenges Alabama's Felon Voting Ban
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in Alabama on behalf of three ex-felons seeking restoration of their voting rights, claiming a 2003 state law is...
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COPA Again Ruled Unconstitutional
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling (PDF) that found the federal Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was...
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COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat
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A US federal appeals court today struck down COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, a Clinton-era censorship law that the Justice Department has been struggling to get...
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FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge
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From the The Wrong Kind of Open Access dept.: The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal...
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In which I have a heavy dose of cynicism with my coffee
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Yeah, this is great and all. And I'm sure the Supreme Court will happily oppose the Bush administration and agree with the ACLU when this case reaches them, right? I...
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Why Did You Do That?
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A college professor, an avowed atheist and active in the ACLU, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated that for once and for all...
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Democracy Now! 2008-06-30 Monday
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Democracy Now! 2008-06-30 MondayHeadlines for June 30, 2008Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against IranAffirmative...