Tag: Liberties
Why Protecting Civil Liberties Would Be ‘Even Harder’ in a Second Trump Term
For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union, Donald Trump’s four years in the White House had the intensity of life during wartime.
The group filed its first lawsuit against the Trump administration on January 28, 2017, just eight days after Trump took office and one day after he promulgated his first attempt at banning the entry into the U.S. of travelers from several Muslim-majority nations.
The pace of the organization’s legal combat against Trump never let up. Ultimately the ACLU
Liberties: A Magazine in Revolt Against the New
Books & the Arts
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October 2, 2023
A magazine’s revolt against the new.
Tolerance, rigor, open-mindedness, and a willingness to countenance doubt and contradiction apparently are all values the magazine champions in theory but tends to ignore in practice.
Illustration by Tim Robinson.
Leon Wieseltier has been burned by the tech world twice. In 2012, three decades into his tenure as The New Republic’s literary editor, Wieseltier
The Crusade Against Civil Liberties During World War I
With the exception of the Second World War, every military conflict in which the United States has taken part has generated an anti-war movement. During the American Revolution, numerous Loyalists preferred British rule to a war for independence. New Englanders opposed the War of 1812; most Whigs denounced the Mexican-American War launched by the Democratic president James K. Polk; and both the Union and the Confederacy were
„Bedroht unsere Demokratie“: Canadian Civil Liberties Association verurteilt Trudeau unter Berufung auf „Emergencies Act“
Die Canadian Civil Liberties Association hat sich am Montag öffentlich gegen die Berufung von Premierminister Justin Trudeau auf das Emergencies Act ausgesprochen, um den „Freedom Convoy“ zu unterdrücken.
Trudeau ist der erste Premierminister, der das Emergencies Act herausgegeben hat, bei dem es sich um einen nationalen Notfall handelt, der in „einer dringenden und kritischen Situation vorübergehender Art eingesetzt wird, die (a) das Leben, die Gesundheit und die Sicherheit der Kanadier ernsthaft gefährdet und von solchen Ausmaßen oder Natur ist die