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ACLU Sues Law Enforcement for Shielding President Bush From Protestors
The ACLU and the ACLU of New Mexico filed a lawsuit on January 15, 2008, on behalf of several New Mexico residents and advocacy organizations who were made to stand more than 150 yards away from the site of a fundraiser being attended by the president as they peacefully protested the views of the administration, while a group of people expressing support for President Bush were allowed to stand only a few feet from the fundraiser site. Learn more>>
ACLU Represents Journalists Assaulted by FBI Agents
On November 5, 2007, the ACLU filed its opening brief in the 1st Circuit in Puerto Rico Journalists' Association v. Mueller. The ACLU represents a number of journalists who were kicked, punched and pepper sprayed by FBI agents. The FBI agents had been executing a search of an apartment in a condominium complex. As the search wound down and agents exited the condominium building, the reporters approached them for comment. The FBI agents responded by beating the journalists and spraying them with pepper spray. The journalists assert the FBI agents violated their First Amendment right to gather the news and their Fourth Amendment right to be free of excessive force. After losing in the district court, the journalists, represented by the ACLU, have taken their case to the appeals court. Oral arguments are scheduled to take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 5, 2008.
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ACLU Skeptical of Senate Report on Homegrown Terrorism (5/8/2008)
Washington, DC – After Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced a report on Islamic homegrown terrorism today, the American Civil Liberties Union strongly urged Congress to use caution when moving forward on related legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 1959). The report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," is based on findings from hearings held by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The ACLU and nearly twenty other groups sent a memo to the committee outlining concerns with the report, most notably the free speech implications of labeling the internet as a "weapon" and the unfair singling out of one religious group as possible "extremists."
ACLU Commends Net Neutrality Hearing (5/6/2008)
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union commends Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet for holding a hearing today on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (H.R. 5353), legislation designed to keep the Internet free for open discourse.
Senate Poised To Tighten Broadcast Ownership Rules (4/24/2008)
Washington, DC – Today, the Senate Commerce Committee is expected to approve a bipartisan resolution, sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), which would restore a media ownership rule recently rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The old rule generally restricted a company from owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same city, unless the FCC granted a waiver.
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