Sentences with phrase «of civil libertarians»

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

Revelations in recent years by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden about widespread surveillance of communications have done nothing to dispel the wariness of civil libertarians and privacy advocates concerning sovereignty over data.

Thus, at first blush, it seems surprising that the UK — with all its attendant European human rights obligations — would be at the vanguard of this civil libertarian nightmare.

The primary concern of the civil libertarian is the relationship of the government to the individual.

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Given these results, why is separationism still the dominant position of many civil libertarians, including most Jewish and mainline Protestant leaders in the field of church - state thought?

The civil libertarian argument — something Republicans like King used to care about — is, of course, compelling.

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.

The civil libertarians have not recognized the problem: by their lights, the liberties of the creationists and others who hold other - than - naturalistic views of human origins are not being infringed upon because only scientific truth is arrayed against them.

Revolution argues that government should ignore civil libertarians» resistance and fund the service, Unfortunately, in the eyes of the authors, «the courts have not progressed as far as they should in this matter.»

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.

Civil - libertarian feminism is primarily concerned with «equal rights» — i.e., equal access of women to the public world of work, power and education.

Colm: I fear you are allowing your (and my) disagreements with the classical liberal / libertarian right on social and economic policy to get in the way of the possibility of useful discussion of civil liberties issues.

She is a true liberal and this was reflected in the stands she took on race and immigration in the 1960s, capital punishment, prison reform and, later, the civil libertarian values of the Liberal Democrats.

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.

Civil libertarians are growing increasingly anxious about the database, which grows by around 30,000 samples a month and contained four million records at the end of 2006.

It is government interference, of the sort civil libertarians like myself rail against every day.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

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.

The speech was a far cry from the more moderate, civil libertarian musings of the shadow home secretary at a Liberty fringe event last night.

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

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.

Civil libertarians, privacy advocates, and many internet users are up in arms at the bill, which they see as an infringement of online freedom betraying a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works.

In the column, Paul applies his consistent libertarian beliefs concerning big government, civil liberties, and the militarizing of local police.

Civil libertarian groups are taking the loss as further evidence of the government's incompetence when dealing with private data.

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.

According to this story, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, Peter Goldring, has left the Conservative Party and now lists his party affiliation as «Civil Libertarian.»

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:

But civil libertarians, single - issue activists and many members of the public sought a change in the guidance.

They are at home in modern Britain in that they are supportive of gay rights, are civil libertarian and use the NHS.

There, a bill designed to outlaw pornography on the Internet which had looked like a lost cause has now reached the House of Representatives — creating fury among civil libertarians in its wake.

The civil libertarian seeks, in theory, to restrict this relationship to an absolute minimum in which the state can function and provide basic services and securities without excessively interfering in the lives of its citizens.

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.

Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left of modern politics.

Ferlinghetti explores the world of San Francisco (TM) s legendary poet, artist, publisher and civil libertarian.

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.

While vouchers have been opposed by most Democrats, teachers» unions and civil libertarians as a violation of the separation of church and state, the opposition of those groups did not count much in New Jersey by 1995.

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.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

Amazon's move to pull copies of George Orwell's 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother implications.

In the light of recent revelations around the National Security Agency PRISM program, a panel of journalists, civil libertarians and human rights experts will present the long history of domestic spying by government agencies, private sector cooperation, and the legal, ethical and business challenges of defending and preserving liberty and constitutionality in cyberspace.

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/ Personal blog of a leading figure in the Libertarian Alliance («Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties think tank — hosting the world's second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, Libertarian Alliance («Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties think tank — hosting the world's second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, DC»).

Meanwhile, Queen's Park has been consulting with police, concerned community groups, civil libertarians, the Ontario Human Right Commission and the general public with the aim of introducing a reform of carding later this fall.

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.

But even as the technology is proving useful on a variety of fronts, its growing deployment is raising alarms among civil libertarians, who worry that the capability to identify people based solely on their appearance will erode privacy.

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.

Or, if one were to consider the civil libertarian streak of Democratic thought (which they wouldn't, since the party in power always looks to its adherents who favor perpetuating that power, the foresight to reflect that its opponents will eventually come to power being quite beyond it), Randy Barnett and quite a few others.

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.

Monday's Bill of Rights Day edition of Blawg Review is being hosted by the often - irreverent civil libertarian Marc Randazza at his blog The Legal Satyricon.

Andrew McLaughlin, Googleâ $ ™ s director of global public policy, took an aggressive civil - libertarian position, arguing that the company should protect as much speech as possible.

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.