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On the Agenda: January 27-31
Washington may be in a deep freeze right now, but even the cold can't ruin the excitement in the air. Tomorrow is one of the best days of the year here in DC.
By By Meghan Groob, Media Relations Associate, ACLU
This Week in Civil Liberties (01/24/2014)
What Canadian celebrity, arrested for drag racing this week, could be deported if convicted of a felony?
By By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
Federal Courts Deal Setbacks to No-Fly List
Federal courts are scrutinizing the government's use of its secret No Fly List, and they don't like what they see. In two recent decisions, judges have either rejected or expressed skepticism about the government's arguments for secrecy and against a meaningful process for people to challenge their inclusion on the blacklist that bans them from travel to or from the United States or over American airspace. These decisions come on the heels of an August 2013 ruling in the ACLU's No Fly List challenge, in which a court found, in a first-of-its-kind preliminary ruling, that our clients' ability to fly internationally is protected by the Constitution.
By By Hugh Handeyside, Staff Attorney, ACLU, National Security Project
Three Things to Know About the Government Privacy Report on NSA Spying
This piece was originally published on Slate.
By By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
The Shrinking Rationale For Government Surveillance Camera Systems
Yesterday I wrote about how the spread of cameras throughout our public lives is irrevocably changing our privacy in public spaces, as well as society expectations around video surveillance—with people increasingly surprised when an unusual incident that takes place in public is not captured on video.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Is Illegal Entry the Crime You’re Most Afraid Of?
Guess what crime is the most prosecuted at the federal level in the United States? Rape? Murder? Assault? Robbery? Racketeering? Financial fraud?
By Ruthie Epstein, Deputy Director, Immigration Policy, ACLU
Texas Shouldn't – BUT JUST DID – Execute a Mexican National
Yesterday, at 9:32 p.m., the state of Texas executed Edgar Arias Tamayo, a 46-year-old Mexican national. Injecting lethal drugs into Mr. Tamayo's bloodstream was a clear violation of the United States' international obligations, and yet the state of Texas wasn't deterred.
By By Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program
What Justin Bieber's Arrest Would Mean for Another Non-Citizen
When I wrote about Justin Bieber's trouble with the law last week, we didn't know how far he'd fall in just a few days. Now Bieber has been arrested for late-night drag racing in Miami Beach. If convicted, another immigrant in his situation would very likely languish in immigration detention before being deported. That person—like 84 percent of people in immigration detention-- would also likely not have an immigration attorney, let alone a high-priced one.
By By Diana Scholl, Communications Strategist, ACLU
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