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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino treads a shameful, unwise, constitutionally dubious, and ultimately ineffective path when he orders his goons to keep the untidy street performers from the plaza surrounding City Hall and Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Relegating...
By, Wendy Kaminer Last month, I criticized the Texas ACLU for its timidity in defense of liberty when Texas authorities raided the polygamous “Search for Zion,” compound, forcibly removed some 460 children from their parents, on the basis of one anonymous...
Today's newspapers carry the obituary for the somewhat accidental civil rights pioneer Mildred Loving, who died last Friday at 68. Loving and her late husband Richard were the plaintiffs in one of the most important civil rights cases ever to reach...
The ACLU has found itself a strong test case for determining
whether a student’s right to privacy is violated when he or she is
“outed” to the community by their school. A principal in Memphis, Tennessee,
apparently in order to cut down on public displays...
By Wendy Kaminer Finally. Robert and Barbara Curley have dropped their 8 year old wrongful death action against 18 alleged members of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA.) The crime that provoked this lawsuit was horrendous: the murder...
By Wendy Kaminer, Now that Judge Barbara Walther has refused to release from state custody the 416 children taken from their parents in the raid of a polygamous compound in Texas, ordering all parents and children to undergo DNA testing, the Texas ACLU...
By Wendy Kaminer Late last year, when Fox News refused to run an ad by the Center for Constitutional Rights , criticizing president Bush for destroying the Constitution, liberals rightly protested, accusing the network of censorship. They should keep...
By James F. Tierney You may have heard about the Pennsylvania woman who was charged with disorderly conduct for "loudly cursing at her overflowing toilet," which a neighbor -- an off-duty police officer, no less -- heard. The Boston Globe reports...
By Wendy Kaminer Alberto Gonzales left office patting himself on the back for his work combating online child porn, a Bush Administration priority. Congress has enthusiastically targeted child porn too, even when it’s only imaginary, but ran into resistance...
