Tag: ACLU
Welcome To Arizona. Prepare To Be Stopped & Searched If You're Not White.
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 07:49:04 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Racial profiling is a nasty business. It means that if you are black or brown, you are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. It means your civil liberties are less by virtue of your skin color. When the profiling becomes blatant and offensive enough, it's time to go to court, as happened with Arizona back in 2001. Rather than drag out things, the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) reached a settlement (pdf doc) in 2006 with plaintiffs, agreeing to end racial profiling. They also agreed to collect data on racial and ethnic breakdowns of traffic stops and arrests. Two years after swearing to play nice and not profile, DPS faces renewed charges of racial profiling -- charges backed up by the data collected by their officers.
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I've Got People ... Who Can't Do Online Civil Union Tax Returns
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 08:08:51 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you've been watching TV recently, you've probably seen the ads about the person who managed to save a whole bunch on his or her taxes. The secret - they've got people. That's the latest from H&R Block, the granddaddy of all tax preparation firms. Even if you don't need a second look at the taxes you've fumbled with, the company stands ready to prepare your taxes. Filing your taxes online is an increasingly popular method and H&R Block is also ready to do that for you -- unless you're a gay couple in a civil union in Connecticut.
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Bush Fights for Warrantless Love On The Telephone
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:58:40 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Monday, Tuesday, three days and more
Pretty soon you don't have illegal wiretaps anymore
Friday, the sixth day, Saturday seems late
Don't know how much longer Bush/Cheney can wait.
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Legal Smackdown Over Illegal Law Designed to Make Illegal Immigrants Illegal
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 08:55:33 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Small town Hazleton, PA found its notable immigration law package struck down by federal courts recently who ruled that they were attempting to take on a federal issue without proper authority and denying due process to city residents, both legal and illegal.
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Bush Flip-Flops on Warrantless Wiretaps
Thalia.
Posted to Legal on Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 10:50:07 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
As the Bush Administration has been losing in the courts pretty consistently, their current tactic is to try to remove jurisdiction from the court whenever they look like they're about to lose. The most recent attempt at this was the announcement that the controversial NSA wiretapping program, which the administration argued did not require court supervision, should be under under FISA's jurisdiction after all.
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