Tagged: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts

Deborah Pearlstein, Director of the U.S. Law and Security Program at Human Rights First has posted on online diary of her observations of a week in the life of the military commission reviewing the...

The Columbian on Ban Bubbles Up: Disgusting as it is, flag desecration will always tell us more about the desecrater than it will tell us about the flag. The issue isn't drawing much attention...

My primary publication, The Multiracial Activist, has been participating in a joint lawsuit since 2001 against the Department of Justice regarding secret detentions. My advocacy letters can be found here and those signed by...

Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik comes correct on the issue of big government marriage amendments: Government involvement in marriage had an ugly beginning, Badnarik noted. “The only reason that marriage licenses even exist is...

Well, the big government conservatives (yes – it is my new mantra) have failed in their bid to expand their power into areas it was never meant to reach. The bid to “protect” marriage...

Nevada Libertarian Congressional Candidate Jim Duensing on the Freedom to Read: 18 Republicans, 191 Democrats, and the only Independent in Congress voted to protect our library and book store records from the prying eyes...

There’s a fourth coalition letter from June that my primary publication The Multiracial Activist signed on. This letter, in support of restoration of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, was sent to the House on...

Its been a busy week on the civil liberties front. Here's the third coalition letter (this week) that my primary publication The Multiracial Activist signed on. This letter, in support of the Civil Liberties...

The Liberty and Security Initiative of the Constitution Project has released its bipartisan Report on Post-9/11 Detentions (pdf). Signatories include: Co-chairs David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union and David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law...

From a statement today by Steve Lilienthal, Director of the Center for Privacy and Technology Policy at the Free Congress Foundation regarding “today’s expected mark up of H.R. 3179 — the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools...