Showing posts with label ACLU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACLU. Show all posts
Cops Sued For Illegally Ticketing Alerting Drivers
There is no law against warning others of speed traps. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Ellisville Police Department Wednesday morning. The lawsuit claims the Ellisville police have been illegally ticketing drivers that flash their high beams to other drivers to warn them about speed traps. ACLU legal Director Tony ... MOREACLU Says Reid Gun Bill Could Threaten Civil Liberties
by Vince Coglianese. As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill. Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen. Harry Reid’s current gun bill, which includes language from earlier bills introduced by ... MOREDEA Seeks Prescription Records Without A Warrant
Eric W. Dolan on the efforts of the ACLU to block them. The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from obtaining prescription records without a warrant in Oregon. The state of Oregon filed suit against the DEA last year after the agency sought to access the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: Your Cellphone Is Spying On You
Big Brother has been outsourced. The police can find out where you are, where you’ve been, even where you’re going. All thanks to that handy little human tracking device in your pocket: your cellphone. There are 331 million cellphone subscriptions—about 20 million more than there are residents—in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of adult ... MOREA. B. Hinkle: Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama
Is it fascism yet? That was the snarky question glued to the bumper of every self-respecting progressive’s gas/electric hybrid back during the Bush-Cheney administration. It now must be asked again. Back then, liberals were raising the alarm about impending fascism because of post-9/11 policies such as warrantless wiretapping, wars of choice, military ... MORETed Nugent: Nut Control, Not Gun Control
Failure to deal with mental illness leads to massacres. In the wake of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., the left has once again resorted to clamoring for further restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns and defend ourselves — even in the face of inescapable evidence that such restrictions are at the root cause of such slaughters. ... MORE
Mike Riggs: Gary Johnson Braves The ACLU
Libertarian candidate charms civil libertarians. On January 29 the Miami Herald ran a full-page ad excoriating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for their “abysmal” constitutional records. The ad wasn’t paid for by Ron Paul or his supporters, but by the American Civil Liberties Union, which invited the GOP field to its annual staff convention in Orlando to “face the ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Rationing Speech To Minimize Thought
Why liberals favor campaign season censorship. Liberals are nearly united against Citizens United. This means they are nearly united in favor of censorship. But that has not stopped the Supreme Court decision from being roundly denounced by everyone with progressive DNA – from the elderly solons at The New York Times to the youthful idealists of ... MORE
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