ACLU Opposes Minimum Sentences

Posted on March 3, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Illegal Activities, News | 2 Comments

Some simple laws are in place to prevent judges from acting like the Judge in Vermont, who originally gave a sex offender a 60 day sentence. Most of these laws have to do with drug use, and they establish a minimum sentence to offenders of the law, as opposed to the judge decided the sentence. [...]

New Florida Town Would Trample Your Right to Buy Porn

Posted on March 3, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | 16 Comments

Via CNN.
NAPLES, Florida (AP) — If Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control.
Civil libertarians say the plan is unconstitutional and are threatening to sue.
“If they attempt [...]

State Abortion Bans Continue

Posted on March 3, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, News | 5 Comments

The trend of States banning abortion in an attempt to push for a challenge to Roe vs. Wade continues.
Mississippi are poised to join the abortion banning.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, says he will sign a measure that bans virtually all abortions in the state should it make its way through the legislature and reach [...]