Sentences with phrase «for civil libertarians»
However, what is troubling about the proposed legislation, particularly for civil libertarians, is the potential for surveillance in the absence of a warrant.
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It also allows for anonymous transactions, making the currency popular with hackers and civil libertarians.
Civil libertarians rise to the defense of this private freedom while those concerned for the global good seem prepared to adopt penalties that severely limit personal freedom.
I am no opponent of academic freedom; but I believe Christians should not let civil libertarians and secular humanists decide for us what it means to be free.
While civil libertarians and family campaigners have been exercised by the proposed «Cinderella Law» in England and the «Named Person» legislation in Scotland, you'd be forgiven for having missed an insidious consultation being rushed through on the hush - hush in just six quiet weeks this summer.
Though the rise of political blogs and the netroots in this decade has diluted the place of Libertarians online, even today the audiences of tech - heavy sites such as Slashdot and Digg show a fondness for civil liberties and anti-authoritarian ideas: one sign of Paul's rise has been the large number of votes for stories about him on Digg.
Trump enraged civil libertarians a year ago by calling for an outright ban on Muslims entering the nation, following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that resulted in the deaths of 14 state workers at a holiday party.
Whilst his views on the environment are not to everyone's taste, this Platform piece which he wrote for ConHome during party conference week makes a compelling civil libertarian case for reducing the amount of state regulation in our lives.
Meanwhile, gun advocates and libertarians say the bill would infringe on people's civil liberties and right to due process, by making it possible for the Attorney General to refuse someone a gun and deny certain information about why they'd been refused — without indicting that person or convicting them of a crime.
Dominic Raab, the new MP for Esher and Walton (and author of the excellent The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights) set out his stall as the civil libertarian - in - chief among the new intake in his maiden speech yesterday:
Civil liberties: Some say that David Cameron is not a natural civil libertarian and key advisers (George Osborne and Michael Gove, for example, plus Nick Herbert) are relatively hawCivil liberties: Some say that David Cameron is not a natural civil libertarian and key advisers (George Osborne and Michael Gove, for example, plus Nick Herbert) are relatively hawcivil libertarian and key advisers (George Osborne and Michael Gove, for example, plus Nick Herbert) are relatively hawkish.
Other civil libertarian positions include support for at least partial legalization of illicit substances (marijuana, etc.), a strong demarcation between religion and politics, and, more recently, support for gay marriage.
Among the groups represented at the hearing were the National Association of Scholars, which had filed the complaint, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), founded and headed by civil libertarians Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney.
Civil libertarians like Robert Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education argue that these «systemic» investigations improperly required colleges to revisit other complaints resolved long ago, potentially leading to colleges overturning not guilty verdicts against students accused of harassment or assault.
Winner of the People's Voice award — decided by votes from the public — is the Institute for Justice, a civil - libertarian public - interest law firm.
Last week on the blog The Free for All, civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate issued a call for an ethics investigation of the Department of Justice lawyers who advised the CIA on the legality of its torture practices.
A noted civil libertarian, philanthropist, and advocate for victims» rights, Mr. Cochran may have been best known for his role in some of the most famous cases of the last several decades.
«I called him the Canadian civil libertarian and everyone stood up and it was a very moving moment and I'm happy we could do that for him,» says Pillay.
It has been a difficult year so far for Canadian civil libertarians as U.S. whistle - blower Edward Snowden's massive exposure of the National Security Agency's metadata collection has spilled into Canada.
But since Trump, with no ties to either camp or its ideology, defeated a raft of other candidates for the presidential nomination last year, the Republicans have been cast into a growing civil war between mainstream conservatives, Tea Party - inspired libertarians, and the xenophobic and misogynistic groundswell that Trump has proven expert at tapping into.