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Washington, DC - The American Civil Liberties Union urges members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose moving forward with the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general unless Mukasey states that waterboarding and other extreme interrogations tactics are torture.
St. Paul, Minn. -The Osseo school district appealed the U.S. District Court's decision to grant a permanent injunction. No date has been set for the appeal. In September, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota granted a permanent injunction against the Osseo School District.
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to a Minnesota District Court urging it to allow Senator Larry Craig to withdraw his guilty plea because the secret sting operation used to arrest him was likely unconstitutional.
NEW YORK - A federal court today struck down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision.
NEW ORLEANS - The American Civil Liberties Union today released a report revealing continuing incidents of racial injustice and human rights abuses on the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area two years ago.
WASHINGTON - In the first effort of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union will today file legal papers with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) requesting that it disclose recent legal opinions discussing the scope of the government's authority to engage in secret wiretappin