LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The NSA and the FBI under the Obama administration infringed upon foundational civil liberties many times over several years, according to recently declassified documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The memos — which were originally obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) through Freedom of Information…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill A federal court ruled Friday that praying at the opening of North Carolina county commission meetings is unconstitutional. The full 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the initial ruling of the circuit’s 3 judge panel, which said that the prayers were constitutional so long as Rowan County commissioners did…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act request, demanding copies of records relating to President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. The ACLU filed the request Monday with the FBI and Department of Justice. Currently, the White House justification for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The director of the American Civil Liberties Union disparaged President Trump, but also criticized campus safe space culture in an interview in the May 2017 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, told the Princeton Alumni Weekly, a magazine representing…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memorandum overturning former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr.’s 2013 statement on drug-related ‘criminal activities’. Sessions urged prosecutors nationwide to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense, […] including mandatory minimum sentences”. The goal of the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock Sanctuary city advocates are advising local officials across the country to ignore evidence in government databases linking illegal immigrants to vicious criminal gangs or terrorist groups, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. The advice is included in a 72-page step-by-step manual on thwarting federal immigration…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Activists and civil rights groups criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) pause on police reform, calling the move “alarming” Tuesday. Many of the groups claimed the pause could potentially violate civil rights and harm the public, reports NBC New York. “Consent decrees are the means by which you…
By Joe Klare A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) shows just how many people are being arrested for simple drug possession, marijuana in particular. More than one of nine arrests by state law enforcement are for drug possession, amounting to more than 1.25 million arrests per…
Police unions may be resistant to body cameras on officers, but technology is finding new ways to keep police accountable. A new app put out by the ACLU allows you to take video and automatically send the video to them. This means even if police seize the fun, the video has already been sent to…
By Michael Bastasch Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil rights attorney and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, called investigations of global warming skeptics by state attorneys general “pure harassment.” “It is outrageous for any law enforcement official to be seeking to win this battle for minds by flexing law enforcement muscle…