Sentences with phrase «of civil liberties issues»

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.

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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.

Liability issues raised by companies and privacy concerns of civil liberties groups contributed to the failure to implement such laws.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Ms. Lasdon served as Deputy Director of Research for People for the American Way Foundation, where she published research on civil rights and civil liberties issues.

In the Enlightenment view of the world, ethical issues regularly get reduced to issues of civil liberties, which is increasingly being shown to be a far too simplistic category to guide society in dealing with such complex moral problems as incest, abortion, divorce, and substance abuse.

You would think that someone who had any rationality to them at all would be focusing on real issues, such as stripping away of our civil liberties, or the ongoing wars that actually cost this country billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, or the trillions of dollars in our deficit.

On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestants.

Even in our own country, proud of its long heritage as the cradle of liberty and the land of the free, the issue of freedom, whether in the field of civil rights or of economic opportunity, is still the most fundamental problem of our time.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.

I do nt think it's an issue of civil liberties, its an issue of man with man, and women with women.

I would have thought, in the current climate where the traditional loose Lib - Lab alliance has broken down over civil liberties issues, the greens would get quite a lot of second - preference votes.

He is a leading commentator on a wide variety of issues including digital privacy and web - blocking, CCTV, civil liberties and privacy.

However, in the context of the US Civil War in which the abolition of slavery was a burning issue, and with the expansion of industrial activity, wage labour rapidly became a gauge of liberty in contrast to the model of slavery, even when Abraham Lincoln himself refused this equation (wage labour = the opposite of slavery = liberty).

On both of these criteria, the civil liberties issues around surveillance and the policing of protest score very high.

But he has now responded and extended an open invitation to write for LabourList on issues of civil liberties.

But it also has a very poor record on civil liberties and related issues about the quality of state power (e.g., the database state), things which also matter to egalitarian liberals as liberals.

In my case, I turn out to agree with 1) Dennis Kucinich, 2) Mike Gravel and 3) Bill Richardson, who must have strong positions on environmental and civil liberties issues, both of which I listed high.

The diagram had revealed at least 150 «meaty issues», including those surrounding the treatment of whistleblowers, censorship, national security, civil liberties and international relations.

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

Overall, it seems to me that the LD defence of «achieving what we could with the power we had» is probably quite defensible on civil liberties, on green issues, on political reform; on libel reform, perhaps the EU for now, and perhaps other issues.

Fusing a concern for the poor, the environment and civil liberties with the issues more associated with the Conservative Party gives us the opportunity to become the natural party of government again.

I think a minority government is most likely - with co-operation on issues like civil liberties, the environment and localism — but touring TV studios both John Major and William Hague said that David Cameron would accept Liberal Democrat members of the Cabinet.

We agree on a lot — schools, localisation, green issues, civil liberties, some aspects of bank regulation and democratic reform.

Claudia has been outspoken on important issues of civil liberties, and has been very strongly opposed to Common Core curriculum.

On a vast array of profound issues — ranging from climate change and civil liberties to drone strikes, perpetual war and a huge military budget — some individual progressives in Congress introduce outstanding bills and make excellent statements.

If Labour and LibDem wish to lance the conservatives on the issue of civil liberties, then they need to find a way of tying these two seemingly disparate threads together.

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

«If we go into the trenches in order to try to defend this then it would be seen as part of a lamentable history on civil liberties issues and it would do us terrible damage at this stage.»

When civil liberties are under attack, global warming remains one of the great issues of our age, Heathrow is a battle about to get louder, migrants need defenders and Cameron restraints to stop him repeating the mistake of Libya by bombing in Syria after the slaughter on Syria's sunbeds, this could be a Lib Dem moment.

«The issues that we have covered have included political reform, economic issues and reduction of the deficit, banking reform, civil liberties, environmental issues,» he continued.

The issue of control orders, under which terror suspects are placed under «virtual house arrest», is the one of the most sensitive civil liberties issues for ministers as opposition to Labour's authoritarian counter-terror policy was seen as part of the glue that made the coalition possible.

«Claudia has been outspoken on important issues of civil liberties, and has been very strongly opposed to Common Core curriculum,» Hunter added.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

He's clearly keen to put some distance between himself and the record of the last Labour government on many issues — Iraq, equality, redistribution and tax, markets and privatisation, industrial policy, trade union rights and working hours, and civil liberties.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

«As someone who is liberal on social issues and civil liberties, I accept that in government we were too draconian on aspects of our civil liberties,» Mr Miliband said.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary who quit the Tory frontbench to fight campaigns on civil liberties issues, welcomed news of the review.

The Dems will capitalize on the issue of civil liberties by including the rights of gay people and listing the ways the Bush administration has happily invaded our privacy since 9/11.

And whilst it is welcome to have Liberal Democrat support on spending cuts and on certain civil liberties issues, and whilst we could well have compromised with the Liberal Democrats on a number of other issues, we didn't need a coalition and if a referendum on AV was the price of formal coalition we should never have agreed to it.

Some may see civil liberties issues in these checks but any such attacks from Labour will be blunted by the fact that the Brown government had also started to enlist Experian but the Coalition is determined to make wider use of their services.

Indeed, there are many aspects of the coalition government's programme of which we approve, notably its commitment to constitutional reform and enhanced civil liberties, and the willingness of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to make poverty and dispossession a defining issue of our political discourse.

The attorney acknowledged, though, that this was a deeply personal decision, and that there are serious issues of civil liberties involved, and even some constitutional complaints.

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Nearly 80 years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

Rather than, say, trying to stop a malevolent super-elf destroying the nine realms of Asgard, these superheroes are suddenly grappling with real - world issues such as national security, civil liberty, and intelligence gathering.

Artist Danny Lyon speaks with Representative John Lewis about his lifelong advocacy of civil liberties and his current leadership on issues including gun control and voting rights.

These counterclaims seek to defend the jewel in the crown of our civil liberties... If successful, they will make plaintiff liable for his serial efforts to stifle and avoid criticism of his work on a highly controversial issue of intense public interest...

As Justice Stratas put it to the attendees, should Canada ever be gripped by some form of threat or disorder, leading the government to abridge the civil liberties of many Canadians, do we want the judge deciding the constitutionality of the government's action to be able to turn to a body of constitutional law «based on fundamental principles, consistently applied over decades» — in other words, «settled legal doctrine» — or do we want the judge deciding the issue based upon «her or his own worldview?»

On November 4, 2013, Zwillinger testified before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the independent agency charged with parsing issues of privacy and civil liberties in light of national secuCivil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the independent agency charged with parsing issues of privacy and civil liberties in light of national secucivil liberties in light of national security.