Sentences with phrase «liberties advocates»

Even so, the expiration of the authority at the end of this year will prompt a fight between security hawks who want to renew it, and civil liberties advocates who want to let it expire, or curtail it.

Many civil liberties advocates, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which defends civil rights and freedoms in the digital world, believe that this patented system would enable Apple to secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about a user — simply put, to spy on their customers.

Civil liberties advocates argue the increased usage of cellular surveillance and tracking raises certain constitutional questions as the legal standards for obtaining this cell phone data are generally lower and less clear than the traditional standards applied in circumstances where law enforcement attempts to wiretap or monitor traditional phone lines and conversations.

While defense attorneys and civil liberties advocates are concerned by this approach to data collection, not everyone is bothered by it.

It's a law that activists, civil liberties advocates and concerned citizen types plead about endlessly and earnestly — and to whose pleas the yawns of mass apathy mostly echo back.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

The dispute has been percolating for months, as union leaders, pro-charter groups, civil liberties advocates, parent leaders, students, teachers and principals have re-framed their ongoing debate about the quality of the city's schools around the safety of the 1,800 schools run by the Department of Education.

It hasn't happened yet as far as civil liberties advocates can determine from public legal records, but there are no specific rules or regulations against it, she says.

In addition to the presumptive mayoral hopefuls, the raiding of Zuccotti was slammed by numerous other elected officials and civil liberties advocates.

She has also faced criticism from some activists after she refused to support extension of public housing opportunities to all people living with HIV, as opposed to only those with an AIDS diagnosis; from civil liberties advocates for supporting a requirement than any outdoor demonstration of at least 50 people obtain a police permit; and from Lower Manhattan residents angry that more was not done to save St. Vincent's Hospital.

The revelations have drawn outrage from the Muslim community and civil liberties advocates, who say the surveillance has gone too far.

Civil liberties advocates responded angrily to a Home Office decision to extend 28 - day detention for another six months today, despite clear signs from the government that it would soon shorten the period.

(CNN) A child custody battle in New York City is raising questions about freedom of speech and religion — and civil liberties advocates are sure to be paying close attention.

He has been credited with securing several convictions in high - profile terror cases and is well respected by both national security experts and civil liberties advocates.

Civil liberties advocates have urged senators to press him on his involvement in national security matters during that period, when the government authorized harsh interrogation techniques and routinely shipped terrorism suspects captured on foreign battlefields to Guantanamo Bay.

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

Civil liberties advocates raised alarm over the arrest however, coming so soon after the «Twitter joke trial», where Paul Chambers was convicted for jokingly tweeting he would blow Robin Hood airport «sky high».

Despite slams from a Supreme Court judge and civil liberties advocates, America's DEA calls B.C. home.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

Over at Mirror of Justice, though, Thomas Berg sounds a bit more worried: «a possible lesson here for religious - liberty advocates (applicable in other contexts too) is to beware of pushing the envelope too much.»

CT previously spotlighted the Supreme Court and crosses, international religious liberty advocates and church violence.

Still, several prominent religious liberty advocates — including the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention — that opposed the Utah compromise model aren't on board with Fairness for All either.

«They called Margaret Thatcher the «iron lady,»» the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook said Tuesday in an address to a dinner of religious liberty advocates.

Christen News Agency: Iranian pastor's Christmas arrest worries religious liberty advocates A Christian pastor who spent nearly three years in an Iranian prison for his religious conversion was reportedly arrested again on Christmas Day, contrary to a previous agreement.

By promoting Rehnquist and nominating the archconservative Antonin Scalia to the court, President Reagan has turned the tables on religious and civil liberty advocates.

ADF, Becket, and other religious liberty advocates praised the exemptions after an earlier draft of the policy that was leaked in May.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions echoed the sentiments of many American evangelicals and religious liberty advocates, writing:

Two lesbians who were denied a double room at a hotel are starting a legal battle with the help of civil liberty advocates.

Former shadow home secretary and prominent civil liberties advocate David Davis said the decision was «unnecessary and regrettable».

Law enforcement will presumably push for greater surveillance powers, and civil liberty advocates will resist.

His distinguished trajectory includes an early career as a housing and civil liberties advocate, leadership in business as chairman of Polygon Homes Ltd., one of British Columbia's leading home builders, and a longstanding supporter of the visual arts.

Jennifer Robinson from Doughty Street Chambers, a leading international free speech and civil liberties advocate, is working with Rose to make sure other women are given the help they need to speak out.

Last Remembrance Day, my posting was entitled «Lest We Forget,» which offered some profound words from poet / soldiers of WWI and WWII, including a moving passage from F.R. Scott, a Canadian lawyer who was an important civil liberties advocate and past Dean of McGill Law School.

However, civil liberty advocates and privacy groups have yet to weigh in.

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It also would create an advocate to the FISA court, where surveillance requests are made, to ensure civil liberties and allow for faster appeals of decisions by that secret court.

This gets into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.

«It protects the religious liberty rights of all Americans in very tailored ways that address problems of today,» wrote Heritage Foundation researcher Ryan Anderson, listing and defending the provisions of Trump's draft order from criticism by LGBT advocates that the order is discriminatory and overreaching.

I look forward to Judge Gorsuch's voice on the court for decades to come and pray that he will be an articulate and stalwart advocate for religious liberty and human dignity at all its stages.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

Unlike Francis, these bishops over-emphasize abortion, advocate bigotry under the guise of «religious liberty,» and care more about political battles than the care of souls.

On Tuesday, a non-profit organization that advocates for the complete separation of church and state, as well as civil liberties for atheists in the U.S., announced that they are suspending president David Silverman.

But either way, convictional Christians will increasingly see they are not the moral majority and will advocate less for the legislation or traditional values and be more focused on protecting religious liberty.»

He is vocally pro-Israel and advocated for recent religious liberty legislation in his home state of Georgia.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) regrets the ruling but «calls on evangelicals to be gracious and compassionate to those who do not share their views on marriage and to also advocate for liberty for all who desire to live out their faith.»

In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual «1

Thirdly, I argue for a model for understanding religious liberty that moves away from the conquering propensity of the unitary one, in order to advocate for remembering pluriformity.

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

While critics have characterized such protections as a «license» to discriminate, religious liberty experts state that the memo — while a major move — does not do everything that advocates have hoped or that opponents have feared.

But the sections on international relations contain also many strong affirmations of the duty and opportunity of the church to serve as a unifying force among the nations and as an advocate of those principles of justice and liberty which, if generally observed, would prevent the clash of arms.

Those advocating a pro-choice position on abortion will likely see Robertson's notion of procreative liberty as an extension of the rights outlined in Roe v. Wade.