• `Don`t Ask` Costs More Than Expected (p)(f)
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• 'Black-looking' criminals more likely to get death sentence | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Male murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more than twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned African American defendants found guilty of killing a white person, Stanford researchers have found. The relationship between physical appearance and the death sentence disappears, however, when both murderers and their victims are black. May 25, 2006
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• 'Rhythm Method' May Kill Off More Embryos than Other Methods of Contraception | Science Blog (p)(f)
  The “rhythm method” may kill off more embryos than other contraceptive methods, such as coils, morning after pills, and oral contraceptives, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. May 25, 2006
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• 2003 Draft Legislation Covered Eavesdropping (p)(f)
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• A Medical Crisis of Conscience: Faith Drives Some To Refuse Patients Medication or Care (p)(f)
  Around the United States, health workers and patients are clashing when providers balk at giving care that they feel violates their beliefs, sparking an intense, complex and often bitter debate over religious freedom vs. patients’ rights. July 16, 2006
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• A Push to Rewrite Wiretap Law (f)
  The Bush administration is pressing Congress this week for the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international phone call or e-mail between a surveillance target outside the United States and any person in the United States. Aug 1, 2007
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• ABC News: Legal Rationale for Spy Program Questioned (p)(f)
  WASHINGTON Mar 9, 2006 (AP)— A former top national security lawyer at the Justice Department questions the Bush administration`s legal rationale for its warrantless eavesdropping program, newly released documents show.
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• ABC News: US drops library gag order in Patriot Act dispute (p)(f)
  The government has backed down in at least one battle over the Patriot Act by dropping a gag order imposed on a library that refuses to reveal a reader's borrowing habits. April 12,2006
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• Abu Ghraib Prison (f)
  Daily updated Special Report on Abu Ghraib, with index to past washington post articles and othr links
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• ACLU Challenges Government Attempt to Seize Secret Document (p)(f)
  This attempt by the Bush Administration to suppress information using the grand jury process is truly chilling and is unprecedented in law and in our history as an organization. The subpoena serves no legitimate investigative purpose and tramples on fundamental First Amendment rights. We recognize this maneuver for what it is: a patent attempt to intimidate and impede the work of human rights advocates like the ACLU who seek to expose government wrongdoing.
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• ACLU Protests Maryland`s Mode of Lethal Injection (p)(f)
  The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a temporary restraining order to stop Maryland from executing a man next month, saying regulations governing lethal injections do not comply with the law. Washington Post, Jan 23, 2006 B03
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• ACLU pushes for results in domestic spying lawsuit
  03/10/06 - The Detroit News (p)(f)
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• ACLU Slams Appeals Court Decision in NSA Surveillance Case (f)
  CINCINNATI - In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program. The challenge was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of prominent journalists, scholars, attorneys and national nonprofit organizations who say that the unchecked surveillance program is disrupting their ability to communicate effectively with sources and clients. July 6, 2007 [links to audio of ACLU argument]
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• ACLU sues over Ohio’s Patriot Act (p)(f)
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio yesterday marked the effective date of Ohio’s version of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act by challenging a court’s attempt to implement part of the law. April 2006
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• ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision (p)(f)
  ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision (8/17/2006) Description: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional.
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• Activists on Right, GOP Lawmakers Divided on Spying (p)(f)
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• Ally warned Bush on spying: report (p)(f)
  Peter Hoekstra, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a key Congressional ally of President Bush sent a sharply worded letter to the president in May warning that the administration might have broken the law by failing to inform Congress of some secret intelligence programs, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. July 8, 2006
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• Attorney General Letter Re NSA Spying (f)
  Jan 17, 2007
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• Burma monks issue defiant message
  Leaders of protests by Buddhist monks in Burma say they intend to continue their peaceful demonstrations until the military government collapses. sep 21, 2007
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• Bush agrees to court review of spy program (p)(f)
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a reversal, the White House has agreed to allow a secret federal court review of the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic spying program, a top U.S. Senate Republican announced on Thursday. July 13, 2006
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