Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 93 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Civil Liberties
This week only: Please kick into the DU tip jar!
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Civil Liberties

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Minnesota Cops Can Seize Your Car, Sell It And Keep The Profits, Even If You Did Nothing Wrong 10 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 Oct 2020 14 2926
Weenie Waver Kavanaugh and Bend Over Barrett - SCOTUS A$$ Kissers 0 Praek3 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 2 1342
Cops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After Infamous 'Stingrays' Become 'Obsolete' 0 friendly_iconoclast Oct 2020 Oct 2020 4 1738
Security company that sought ex-Special Forces to guard Minnesota polls agrees to stay out of state, 1 Eugene Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1296
FCC: Rejects All Its Own Legal Arguments; Claims It Can Be The Internet Speech Police 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 1262
NY Times: Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police 3 friendly_iconoclast Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 1800
Trump: we did a retaliatory gang killing 8 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 7 2478
They stopped and humiliated him at the Versace store. He is the Vice President of Versace. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 23 2546
Video of Black jogger stopped by ICE agents in Boston prompts calls for investigation 0 Eugene Oct 2020 Oct 2020 2 1390
Sign on UVA Lawn Room Causing a stir 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 Oct 2020 0 2601
ABUSE OF POWER: THE CASE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR'S IMPEACHMENT 4 BigmanPigman Sep 2020 Sep 2020 8 1693
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 Maraya1969 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 4 1624
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 Maraya1969 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 1 2129
McAllen, TX: lawyers discover DHS is detaining people at black-site run out of the local Hampton Inn 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Sep 2020 20 2383
Police Officers Patient With White Suspect -- Black Suspect Brutalized 0 rocktivity Aug 2020 Aug 2020 3 1864
This is an incredibly disturbing thread. Public defender begins to expose police corruption ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 15 2330
Family seeking legal action after bodycam video shows alarming arrest of 8-year-old boy 2 sandensea Aug 2020 Aug 2020 8 1950
Trump kayos O'Rielly's nomination, possibly because he didn't support conservative media reform 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 1778
Important new video from the Renew Democracy Initiative 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 1 1146
Bowser Had 'Black Lives Matter' Painted On A D.C. Street. Other Groups Say They Should Get A Turn 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 0 1751
Apparently North Paulding High @nphswolfpack doesn't want you to see this photo. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 Aug 2020 17 1706
Regarding the Implementation of Trump's Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 2 1434
Patent Troll Gets Court To Order Startup It Sued To 'Edit' Blog Post; Troll Now Asks Startup To ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 3031
DHS decides there's been enough free speech for the day, walks up, and pepper-sprays vet in the face 15 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 14 2753
Last month I was proud to vote for two candidates I believed in & worked for in my district ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 1214
Defund Teaching About Slavery? Sen. Tom Cotton Proposes Legislation Attacking The 1619 Project 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 6 1337
DHS authorizes personnel to collect information on protesters it says threaten monuments 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 1380
These high school journalists are documenting what's happening in Portland @Clypian 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 34 3232
Prosecutor: No time for evidence against arrested reporter 4 friendly_iconoclast Jul 2020 Jul 2020 23 1999
Forbes: The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool 3 friendly_iconoclast Jul 2020 Jul 2020 13 1789

Civil Liberties Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
DHS Dep Sec Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not stopping the Portland tactics, they're ... 20 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 14 3973
Secret White House calls helped funnel tax money to Trump preachers 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 9 1507
Does anyone here feel as I do, that we have essentially lost the courts? 10 Desert Dem Sep 2019 Jul 2020 2 3707
Your Boss Can Now Search Your Car 9 sandensea Jul 2020 Jul 2020 16 3081
Hey, quick question: Is there any research showing how GOING TO JAIL affects grades and memory? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 0 1328
Selah city lawyer: Family could be prosecuted for chalk art 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 Jul 2020 25 3971
Argentina's Spygate: Macri aide Susana Martinengo, 21 others arrested 0 sandensea Jun 2020 Jun 2020 0 1262
SHERIFF SONGER: MY RIGHT TO LIVE TRUMPS YOUR RIGHT TO BE AN A**HOLE 1 MikeJelf Jun 2020 Jun 2020 11 1993
Face recognition vendor vows new rules after wrongful arrest in U.S. using its technology 1 Eugene Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 1165
Justice Department will reportedly propose limits to online platforms' legal protections 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 1573
Former prosecutors write court in support of bail for lawyers accused of throwing molotov cocktail 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 1 1333
On this day, June 14, 1943, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette was decided. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 8 1628
Watch the Nassau county cop slam on the brakes to give them an excuse to beat a protester. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 1923
L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers but keep rifles, armored vehicle 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 1474
FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? 4 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 2128
Justin Amash wants bill to allow victims to sue police officers 2 sandensea Jun 2020 Jun 2020 8 1745
This video is from 3 nights ago, but remains one of the most disturbing we've seen. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 Jun 2020 9 1709
Complaint filed against Argentina's Macri for wide-reaching illegal surveillance 0 sandensea May 2020 May 2020 1 1290
Philippines orders its largest broadcaster off the air as nation fights virus 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 May 2020 4 1461
A Federal Judge Has a Plan to Let Politicians Manipulate Elections 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 May 2020 12 2285
As campaign 2020 shifts into high gear, Trump's defamation suits pose a chilling prospect for press 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 Apr 2020 2 1471
Georgia Loses Legal Code Copyright Clash at Supreme Court 0 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 4 1429
What this country needs is more government monitoring of the internet 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 Apr 2020 3 1685
The Persistence of Tyranny 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2018 Apr 2020 5 2165
Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in US Criminal Cases 4 friendly_iconoclast Jan 2018 Apr 2020 6 2581
Inmates at N.J. Women's Prison Endured Years of Sex Abuse, Justice Dept. Finds 2 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 4 1482
There's a provision that would allow deporting people with virus to countries that will torture them 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1856
Laurence Tribe: There are "national emergencies" . . . and then there are NATIONAL EMERGENCIES 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 9 2136
On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 0 1700
Mississippi African Americans besieged by illegal searches, ACLU lawsuit says 3 Eugene May 2017 Mar 2020 2 5068

Civil Liberties Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
NSA backtracks on sharing number of Americans caught in warrant-less spying 1 Eugene Jun 2017 Mar 2020 1 3926
Georgia Innocence Project: GA Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Joey Watkins & Johnny Lee Gates! 3 klook Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 2817
To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1634
The DEA seized her father's life savings at an airport without alleging any crime occurred 8 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 Mar 2020 23 4407
Intellectual Property Reform. 11 gredinger Feb 2020 Feb 2020 0 4637
Lawrence Wallace, Supreme Court advocate with a famous footnote, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2020 Feb 2020 0 1514
A Puerto Rican man applied for a license. Georgia officials arrested and jailed him for fraud. 0 Eugene Feb 2020 Feb 2020 3 1682
Vindictive Narcissism 0 no_hypocrisy Feb 2020 Feb 2020 3 1272
The judge whose bail requirements leave cash-strapped defendants in jail 1 Eugene Feb 2020 Feb 2020 1 1400
HS student punished for not standing for Pledge of Allegiance 10 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2020 Feb 2020 10 2497
'In Trump We Trust': Ice cream shop resists town orders to take down its impeachment banner 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 2364
cross post: Colleges are turning students' phones into surveillance machines 3 discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 3966
92% of Americans think their basic rights are being threatened, new poll shows 1 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 3932
Happy 228th birthday, the Bill of Rights, enacted on December 15, 1791. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 Dec 2019 1 1359
In Maryland, many juvenile offenders languish in prison without parole - PBS NewsHour 0 question everything Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1343
Civil libertarians have long warned that this definition of anti-Semitism cannot be used as... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1570
Happy 294th Birthday, George Mason. Founding Founder, He Conceived the Bill of Rights. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1530
Wow, for 13 years, the Fifth Circuit had a secret policy to deny all appeals by pro se inmates.... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 1795
U.S. homeland security abandons plan for face scans for U.S. citizens 1 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 1 1539
U.S. homeland security proposes face scans for citizens 6 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 4 1721
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Civil Liberties
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2025 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.