The April 3 raid on a Fundamentalist LDS Church compound near Eldorado, Texas, has the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas deep in thought. There's an awful lot of issues clawing at each other," said ACLU executive director Terri Burke on Tuesday after spending the entire day in meetings with her staff trying to come up with an official statement. "I will say this, though: This situation really points up how very, very difficult these kinds of issues are, how complex it is.
...Robert Teir, Washington, DC, for American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities, Safe Str...Harris, Jr., Austin, TX, for American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, amicus curiae. David L. ...
The federal government has agreed to pay $80,000 to a Texas couple arrested and charged with trespassing in 2004 after they refused to cover up homemade T-shirts with anti-Bush slogans. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, announced the settlement on Thursday.
... couldn't pass up the opportunity to attend Texas Gov. Rick Perry's big event at Reliant Stadium cal.... Americans United, the Texas branch of the American Civil Libberties Union, the Houston AU chapter and some local activists a...
Students must also become familiar with the political philosophies of [Thomas Jefferson] and new textbooks will contain direct reference to Barack H. Obama. Students will also have to compare and contrast the meaning of the phrase "separation between church and state. We have allowed ideology to drive and define the standards of our Texas curriculum, and it has swung from liberal to conservative, depending on the members of the state board," [Rod Paige] said. "What students are taught should not be the handmaiden of political ideology." "When several key state legislators, a former secretary of education and a majority of the educators who proposed the standards urge the state board to stop political manipulation of social studies curriculum standards, it signifies a groundswell of pu...
... in Texas could downplay the role of civil rights in American history, and advocates are call...The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas drew up a report on school board me...
Court rulings have also imperiled the civil and criminal prosecutions. The Texas Association of Business was indicted on two counts for using $1.7 million from secret corporate sources-mostly big insurance companies, it was later revealed-for a series of shady issue ads in 2002. Several losing Democratic candidates also filed civil suits against the groups. Prosecutors and the civil lawsuits have argued that the issue ads are designed to defeat particular candidates and therefore qualify as electioneering. The TAB argued the issue ads were for educational purposes. As long as the ads don't openly advocate for or against candidates (by using words like "defeat" or "elect"), they aren't considered campaign material and can legally be funded with corporate money
... organizations, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, won an injunction ...
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items. The new standards were adopted after a final showdown by two 9-5 votes along party lines, after Democrats' and moderate Republicans' efforts to delay a final vote failed.
...After the vote, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas urged the state Leg...
A HEALTHY MOVE? You can't blame Albert Hawkins if he wants to get the hell out of Dodge or, in this case, Austin. Hawkins heads the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), a large hunk of the state bureaucracy that administers, among other things, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. He served as George W. Bush's budget director when Bush was governor, and he's known as an ace numbers man. With the state facing a $10 billion budget gap last January, Hawkins returned from a White House post to run HHSC. But before Hawkins could make any budget decisions, newly empowered right-wing state lawmakers seized on the budget shortfall as an excuse to remold the state's entire social safety net to fit their vision of limited government. Twelve state agencies will be folded i...
... Will Harrell, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU) observes, yo...
...BYNUM, TEXAS COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO ...Sims filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. as amici curiae urgin...
ACLU sues feds over shackles SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking to stop a practice in which alleged illegal immigrants are shackled at the feet, waist and wrists for up to 12 hours the day they're due in court. The ACLU argues that it violates constitutional bans against cruel and unusual punishment. No competency hearing for suspect in airliner plot DETROIT -- A federal judge ruled that a competency hearing isn't necessary for a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner, denying a request from the man she hired to help the defendant. The judge believes Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is competent for the scheduled Oct. 4 trial date. LAREDO, Texas - U.S. law enforcement wi...
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