Tag: ACLU
Brophy mocks ‘ACLUSUX’ license plate as big FU to civil liberties...
State Senator Brophy, R-Wray, is in a kind of dialog with the American Civil Liberties Union and, like Miss California, is making sad entertainment of his wrestling with the ideas behind free speech and civil liberties.
SCOTUS ruling on identity theft could affect arrested Weld County workers
A U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down today may have implications for a contentious identity crime prosecution that resulted in 100 charges of criminal impersonation by undocumented workers and more than 5,000 personal income tax records seized in Weld County.
The ACLU of Colorado charged that the raid conducted by Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck and Sheriff John Cooke, dubbed Operation Numbers Game, was overly broad and violated the privacy of the clients of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Service. That case is now before the Colorado Court of Appeals.
ACLU appeals ruling on Bush staffers who ejected three for anti-war...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado filed an appeal Tuesday in the case of three Denver-area residents who were ejected from a town hall meeting in 2005 by Bush White House staffers and Republican volunteers upset about a "No More Blood For Oil" bumpersticker on their car.
A district court judge ruled in November that "the President has a right to exclude from his official, public appearances, all individuals who disagree with his policies," dismissing a lawsuit the ACLU filed on behalf of Leslie Weise and Alex Young, two of The Denver Three.
Buck poised to enter Senate race astride two controversial prosecutions
The day after Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck appeared before a roaring crowd on the steps of the State Capitol at a Tea Party protest, the veteran prosecutor was back in court, leading the charge on two of the more contentious prosecutions Colorado has seen in the last year.
The ultimate Bush Administration torture timeline
The New York Times and Sunday morning political talk shows are contorting themselves into linguistically-torturous positions in a feeble attempt to avoid using the word "torture" to describe the immoral and criminal techniques employed at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA black sites against suspected al Qaeda-linked prisoners.
Now, Foreign Policy magazine has produced the euphemism-free "ultimate guide to the Bush Administration's journey to the dark side."
Gay marriage watchers eye Colorado
Last week in gay marriage, which brought groundbreaking developments in Iowa and Vermont, underlined the patchwork nature of our country's legal fabric, leaving citizens across the country scratching their heads: "What does it mean?" "What happens next?"
ACLU Director Matt Coles has written a short guide to the issue at the ACLU blog, where he explains that the future of gay marriage hinges on what happens in states like Colorado.
Senate panel OKs ‘Katie’s Law’ to collect DNA on all felony...
A state Senate panel late Wednesday evening approved a bill to require law enforcement officials to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony in Colorado, over strong objections from one lawmaker who said “Katie’s Law” — named after a New Mexico college student whose brutal rape and murder was solved using DNA evidence — does “permanent damage” to constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Colorado ACLU: Supermax move for Gitmo detainees would mock justice
Politicians in Colorado are split over the chance detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be imprisoned at the Supermax federal detention facility in Florence -- some say Supermax can handle Gitmo suspects just fine, others warn it's too dangerous. But the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said in a statement to the Colorado Independent Friday afternoon that moving Gitmo detainees -- including many only suspected of crimes -- to the country's most secure prison "is simply another form of torture, one which makes a mockery of 'innocent until proven guilty.' "
Critics question plans to deploy 20,000 troops in U.S. for domestic...
Civil libertarians and plain old libertarians are sounding the alarm over Pentagon plans to station 20,000 uniformed troops stateside to respond to domestic "catastrophes,"including nuclear, chemical or biological attacks, the Washington Post reports. The deployment, reported by The Colorado Independent's Erin Rosa a month ago, includes a 4,700-troop combat brigade based at Fort Stewart, Ga., under the command of the U.S. Northern Command's Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., in Colorado Springs.
Craigslist nastygram results in libel charge for jilted Loveland man
In the world these days, where everyone’s a journalist, it behooves the same everyone — at least in Colorado — to know about an arcane law that could send you to the pokey for writing something insulting about someone and thereby exposing them to “public hatred, contempt or ridicule.” The latest case of criminal libel has been filed over a guy who allegedly ranted and raved about his ex-girlfriend and her attorney and posted it on Craigslist.