Word: aclu
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...assistance check; random tests will also be given to current welfare recipients. Those who test positive will be required to get treatment, and those who refuse to take the test will be cut off welfare within four months. Opponents of the initiative, including various welfare-rights groups and the ACLU, which has launched a lawsuit, argue that the tests violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches...
...artists, in all venues? Proponents of the former stance argue, like Giuliani, that "if someone wants to show art like that and pay for it privately, that?s what the First Amendment is all about. But to have the government subsidize something like that is outrageous." The NEA, the ACLU, artists and the more liberal members of the New York City Council counter that accepting government funding for art should not subject institutions to the personal prejudices of public officials. Back in New York, the underfunded Brooklyn Museum of Art ? which was hoping that "Sensations" would help put it back...
...passage of a measure backed by such rare bedfellows as the NRA and the ACLU was a loud rejection of both President Clinton, who backed a much-diluted version of the bill, and the Supreme Court, whose rulings have consistently declined to raise the bar for reasonable property seizure. Ultra-liberals like Frank saw it as a civil-rights issue; ultra-conservatives like Barr saw it as a chance to keep government power in check. Both sides were making it clear that in the war on drugs, all is not fair, and yea, there was bipartisan joy in the Judiciary...
...violating Michigan's 1897 anti-swearing law. In a case that drew much attention, a jury in rural Arenac County found Boomer guilty of repeatedly using "the F word" within earshot of children after his canoe overturned in a river. He faces 90 days in jail. The ACLU, which calls the law unconstitutional, has vowed an appeal...
...wake of the tragedy last month in Colorado, students are finding themselves watched more closely than ever, and nowhere is that scrutiny more oppressive than online. Now the ACLU has announced that it will represent a group of students from an Ohio high school who were suspended and threatened with expulsion for creating a Goth-themed Web site...