Tenth Anniversary of Worldwide War; A Time to Reassess Who We Are
While the country focuses on the upcoming tenth anniversary of 9/11, there is another tenth anniversary that is coming up next week that triggered sweeping changes around the world. Just a few days after 9/11, Congress passed the Authorization for U...
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The Legacy of 9/11: Endless War Without Oversight
Almost ten years after 9/11, in May of this year, a majority of the US House of Representatives voted to give President Obama — and all future presidents — more war authority than Congress gave to President Bush two days after the 9/11 atta...
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Core Civil Liberties Threatened in State Legislatures: Three Trends to Watch
State legislatures are ground zero in the fight for civil liberties. Although they may not attract as much attention as debates in Congress or arguments in the Supreme Court, they are the source of unprecedented assaults on our most fundamental righ...
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Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
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Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
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Who’s Spying on You? Might Depend on Your Race.
Yesterday, two important news stories demonstrated how new unchecked surveillance programs we've highlighted in our Spyfiles campaign are violating the constitutional rights of innocent Americans. The first, a New York Times article revealed that from ...
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