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Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

How Interest Groups Try to Influence Governmental Officials

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  - International Association of Chiefs of Police . - Fraternal Order of Police .
Monday, January 13, 2025

Ask ChatGPT: What rights do you lose if you are charged with a felony?

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This question came up in a conversation about an hour ago. No need to give you details :) It seems to fit in with our conversation today abo...
Friday, October 27, 2023

From Politico: ACLU: Trump’s gag order in federal case is unconstitutional

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Interesting. - What is a gag order ?  - What are the constitutional arguments for and against them? - How have they been applied in this cas...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

From the ACLU: How Officials in Georgia are Suppressing Political Protest as ‘Domestic Terrorism’

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Political commentary from an influential advocacy group. Again note the strategic use of terminology. - Click here for the article . Over th...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Do we have a Right to Travel?

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- Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting . -  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abor...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

From the Dallas News: How police felt stonewalled by Dallas Diocese at every turn in sex abuse investigation

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An example of due process, specifically a search and seizure. The back and forth between Dallas police and the Diocese interests me. - Click...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate

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For our look at federalism and civil liberties in both 2305 and 2306. The case is Moore v Texas. - Click here for the article . The U.S...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

From Slate: Should Police Bodycams Come With Facial Recognition Software? A technology embraced to protect citizens could have major civil liberties implications.

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The latest from the intersection of technology and civil liberties. How are due process and privacy rights secured in during a time when its...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

From the Washington Post: The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return

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Will this be the Pentagon Papers of 2016? - Click here for the article . Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing. The New York Times executive e...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Is there a constitutional right to protest?

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The word does not exist in the Constitution, so it requires interpretation. - From the ACLU of Oregon : You have a constitutionally protect...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

From the NYT: Major Supreme Court Cases in 2015

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For 2305 today, so we can see recent rulings related to constitutional language. - Click here for the article .
Monday, June 20, 2016

From the Washington Post: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Connecticut’s ban on ‘assault weapons’

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This addresses a question posed last week about whether the Supreme Court might decide whether the Second Amendment applies to assault rifl...
Monday, June 13, 2016

From the Washington Post: Fifty years later, the Miranda decision hasn’t accomplished what the Supreme Court intended

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For out look at civil liberties - as well as the power (or lack thereof) of the courts. - Click here for the article . Fifty years ago tod...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

From the New York Times: This Is Our Country. Let’s Walk It. In much of Europe, walking wherever you want is perfectly legal. Not in America.

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There's lots of undeveloped land in the US - much of it out west - that is privately owned. Which means you can't walk on it legally...

From Vox: These states let police take and keep your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime

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A bit more for out look at criminal justice. - Click here for the article . Most states in America let police take and keep your stuff wit...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

From CityLab: The Death of Jeffrey Pendleton: A homeless man was found dead in a jail cell in Manchester, New Hampshire. What killed him? The criminalization of poverty.

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Something to think about as we cover the due process of the law. I posted a similar story below about whether we have de facto debtor's ...

From the Seattle Times: Hate speech is often free speech, but how can we stop it?

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The author does a good job - in my opinion - laying out the dilemma hate speech presents in a free society, but doesn't provide strong s...

From the American Thinker: Trumping Free Speech

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The candidate wants to make it easier for people to sue the media - like in Britain. The author thinks this is a bad idea. - Click here for ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The right to video record police is conditional, according to a court.

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Smells like a Supreme Court case. - Click here for the article . In recent years, lower federal courts have generally held that the Fi...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Security trumps Civil Liberties

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I guess there's no better verb to use. This part of an occasional series looking at how the general public handles this seemingly inevit...