The ACLU Sues To Defend Communist Lies

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU | 5 Comments

I’ve written on this one before, but Newsmax has an excellent article on it. I urge you to read the entire thing.
In brief, attempted “book bannings’” identical to the one in Miami-Dade, have occurred at a rate of over one a day for the last two and half decades, from sea to shining sea. [...]

Search On Jefferson Office Ruled Legal

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under News | Comments Off

The FBI raid on Rep. Jefferson’s office was ruled completely legal today.
Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan rejected requests from lawmakers and Rep. William Jefferson to return material seized by the FBI in a May 20-21 search of Jefferson’s office.
The overnight search was part of a 17-month bribery investigation of Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat.
In [...]

Marine Mammals Trump Military Readiness

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under News | 9 Comments

On Friday, the Natural Resources Defense Council announced a settlement on the use of mid-frequency sonar by the U.S. Navy during the eight-nation Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises until better safety procedures were in place.
Joel Reynolds, a senior attorney at NRDC and director of its Marine Mammal Protection Project had the following press release [...]

ACLU Action On Prisoners, Can Cause An Unplanned Reaction

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 4 Comments

Today, the ACLU attacked the Department of Defense and by default all uniformed members of the military of using “abusive interrogation practices” on prisoners taken in the Global War on Terror:
“It is the Defense Department’s responsibility to ensure that prisoners are treated humanely, as the Geneva Conventions require,” said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU attorney. [...]

Judge To Consider ACLU’s Case Against NSA

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 1 Comment

Via FOX
A federal judge said Monday that she would begin considering whether to allow a legal challenge to proceed against President George W. Bush’s terrorist surveillance program.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit gave no indication of when she would rule.
On Monday, Taylor heard arguments about the government’s motion to dismiss the case on [...]

Signs of Detainees’ Planning Alleged

Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 2 Comments

Barbara Olshansky, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents most of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is upset because Government lawyers have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to allow them to assemble “filter teams” to review 1,100 pounds of detainee documents, “some of which are protected by lawyer-client [...]