No price on civil liberties
Our opinion: Public officials anywhere who are tempted to repeat New York City’s mass arrests of protesters should consider the true cost. There are two ways to look at the $18 million that New York...
View ArticleA matter of due process
Our opinion: The rising use of asset forfeiture by the government threatens fundamental rights and the basics of justice. Congress needs to look at this. Imagine you’re pulled over for supposedly...
View ArticleConservatives pick and choose on rights
It’s hypocritical for conservatives to invoke the Second Amendment for protection against government tyranny while allowing warrantless spying, indefinite detention and secret drone strikes on...
View ArticleObama encroaches on the Bill of Rights
President Obama — once a constitutional law professor — has eroded civil liberties by expanding government’s powers, says John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute. Whitehead points to drone attacks,...
View ArticleNote to police dogs: Out of our business
Police dog sniffs are an infringement upon privacy, a right protected by the Fourth Amendment, says Jeffrey Meyer in The New York Times. This method of search is often unreliable and shouldn’t be...
View ArticleAre our rights being stripped away?
We’re taking a look back at some recent developments on the civil liberties front, starting with a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this month that some see as the latest chink in the Bill of Rights...
View ArticleProgressives: Get off Paul bandwagon
Ron Paul’s positive positions are “a handful of cherries on a blighted tree,” says Katha Pollitt in The Nation. Progressives shouldn’t ignore his stances on healthcare and abortion, she says, because...
View ArticleReporting initiative balances interests
The Justice Department’s new “Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative” promises to effectively balance the need to quickly respond to suspicious activity that may be related to terrorism...
View ArticleTechnology tilts the balance of power
Long ago, it was the officer’s word against the suspect, and more recently, police officers’ stops are now recorded on video, but technology now enables the ordinary citizen to do their own recording,...
View ArticlePretty soon, we’ll all be labeled “terrorist”
Citing the case of Syed Fahad Hashmi, Chris Hedges writes on Truthdig that the danger of depriving accused terrorists of their civil liberties in order to ensure swift prosecution eventually undermines...
View ArticleLong story short (editorials)
We weigh in, briefly, on solitary confinement for youth prisoners, Hoosick Falls, and transgender rights. Solitary confinement unjust for jailed youths In New York’s “Raise the age” debate, a shameful...
View ArticleTrump foolish to impugn Lewis
Americans can challenge Georgia Rep. John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s election, but what can’t be doubted is that Lewis has led an “exemplary life” of “moral gravity and...
View ArticleFreedom fighters of a different stripe
To the religious right, Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed for defying a court order to give same-sex couples marriage licences, is a freedom fighter. But there are two kinds of freedom fighters,...
View ArticleAnatomy of Bland’s fateful traffic stop
The death of Sandra Bland — a 28-year-old African American woman pulled over for failure to signal in Texas — has raised all sorts of questions, including whether she really committed suicide in jail...
View ArticlePatriot Act expires, but U.S. able to spy
Contrary to media reports and pleas from politicians, allowing parts of the Patriot Act to expire will not jeopardize U.S. security interests, says Timothy Lee in Vox. The government will still “have...
View ArticleTexas ignores real threat to freedom
It’s ironic for conservative groups to panic over a military training operation in the Southwest and claim the federal government seeks to infringe upon the safety, constitutional rights and civil...
View ArticleFree speech doesn’t mean backlash-free
“People get the ‘Free Speech’ argument wrong all the time,” writes comedian Ward Anderson at Huffington Post, comparing the flap over an anti-gay Illinois pizzeria to the outrage over the Dixie Chicks’...
View ArticleUse voting power to address injustice
The Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases demonstrate how officials continue to deviate from “well-settled criminal law and procedure,” a trend that includes attacks on voting rights, the existence of...
View ArticleArmored cops a catalyst for conflict
The more we heavily arm the police, the more likely reasonable people will perceive themselves “to be under immediate threat of physical violence” and react aggressively, which is why “police...
View ArticleJon Stewart ridicules apology controversy involving St. Louis police & NFL
Earlier this week Daily Show host Jon Stewart ridiculed the St. Louis police union for urging the NFL to apologize on behalf of its players from the St. Louis Rams who walked out on the field with...
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