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He makes Richard Nixon look like a civil libertarian by comparison.

Fairbanks, who is thirty-one, sees herself as a civil libertarian.

Dershowitz is a "serious civil libertarian," Mandery said Monday morning on CNN.

Do you think you'll do any civil-libertarian activism in your current position?

You know, as a civil libertarian, I have been opposed to this for years.

In February, the authorities closed it as part of a continuing crackdown on civil libertarian groups.

I am a liberal Democrat in politics, but a neutral civil libertarian when it comes to the Constitution.

In our liberal democracy, the old civil libertarian saw — "answer speech with more speech" — is still good advice.

Mr. Dershowitz, an ardent civil libertarian, has been a criminal defense lawyer throughout his long and distinguished career.

DERSHOWITZ: And so, as a civil libertarian, when you put someone in a campaign, I want to know why.

Yet, no civil libertarian should place such great trust in government files, especially in light of Judge Wolf's findings.

But it's not just a few privacy-obsessed civil libertarian types who are afraid of what President Trump could do.

Notably, McCain was really not a civil libertarian on any broader set of issues related to surveillance or criminal justice.

My immediate reaction, as a civil libertarian, was to agree with these directives to protect the privacy of those afflicted.

It's exactly the opposite of what I've been teaching, arguing, and, as a civil libertarian, believing in for 50 years.

Look, I&aposm a civil libertarian that goes back to the antiwar movement when informers were put in the antiwar movement.

He lays out the argument that Obama is not a civil libertarian, but rather a purveyor of the rule of law.

Nat Hentoff, 91, was a jazz critic, civil libertarian, author and journalist who wrote for the Village Voice for 50 years.

Instead, McConnell and his leadership team worked out a deal with civil libertarian hard-liners who oppose that House bill, including Sens.

So, every civil libertarian should be concerned about even if there is a possibility that an informer has intruded into a political campaign.

It enjoys a broad coalition of support that includes digital rights and civil libertarian NGOs, the national security hawks and tech industry leaders.

And if you're a civil libertarian, his solicitude for law enforcement makes him much less appealing than other judges who had been under consideration.

Consequently, defendants who started out hoping to win a political victory against the war found themselves waging a civil libertarian defense that quickly bogged down.

Younger Israelis tend to be more conservative, increasingly empowering factions inside the party that are more hostile both to the peace process and civil libertarian concerns.

It survives in part to this day, codified permanently in French law by Mr. Macron — the very measures deplored by civil libertarian jurists like Mr. Sureau.

When Labour was in Downing Street, the Lib Dems found a role as a pacifist, civil libertarian and slightly more left-wing alternative to the government.

This is all familiar to me, since I lived through McCarthyism in the 1950s, when lawyers who represented alleged communists on civil libertarian grounds were shunned.

The stalemate has persisted even in Europe's most privacy-minded countries, such as Germany, and despite a bipartisan U.S. alliance of civil-libertarian Democrats and Republicans.

I&aposm outraged as a civil libertarian that a judge is appearing to use incarceration as a penalty, as a punishment for somebody prior to their trial.

I would be joining them in making these arguments, because they are the right arguments for any civil libertarian to make regardless of which foot the shoe is on.

She seems like a cruel and manipulative individual, but I feel that a verdict such as this has a highly dangerous potential that makes the civil libertarian in me squirm.

"Unfortunately, after last weekend, now that people are fighting, for a civil libertarian to sit back and say, 'well the safety rationale is wrong,' it's going to be harder," Creeley said.

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Tennessee lawmakers have voted to make the Bible the state's official book and Governor Bill Haslam is under pressure from civil libertarian and nontheistic groups to stop the measure from becoming law.

As a civil libertarian, I believe that the criminal law should only be used when the conduct at issue is clearly defined — such as bribery, destruction of evidence and lying to law enforcement officials.

The advancement of the intelligence committee bill, the text of which has not yet been released, comes the same day as a group of civil libertarian-minded senators, led by Wyden and Republican Sen.

But it's important to note that when the circumstances were right, Comey did briefly emerge as a major civil libertarian hero back when he served as deputy attorney general later in the Bush administration.

INGRAHAM: On the porch, Martha&aposs Vineyard, with all the snowflakes who can&apost take the fact that there&aposs a civil libertarian out there who is actually principled on these matters of criminalizing politics.

Where a civil libertarian might balk at assassinating Americans abroad without a trial, a president chiefly concerned with the rule of law seeks to ground the tactic in lengthy and, he hopes, sound legal opinions.

I will continue to make the civil libertarian argument that the government should not be testing the morality of its citizens by asking questions to which it already knows the answer and has irrefutable evidence.

Recently, Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge and civil libertarian, rushed to Mueller's defense in a New York Times opinion column, declaring "without equivocation" that Mueller had "no involvement" in the massive miscarriage of justice.

As a nation, we should all be laughing at the suggestion of Jeff Sessions as a civil libertarian, a fighter of freedom, a person qualified for the job of attorney general of the United States.

Every civil libertarian ought to be outraged that the idea that special counsel, if this report is true, is trying to cobble together a case against President Trump based on his tweets and his public statements.

The move thrusts WhatsApp further into a standoff between tech companies and law enforcement officials over access to digital data, one that pits Silicon Valley's civil libertarian ideals against the federal government's concerns over national security.

T. Greg Doucette is a Durham-based criminal defense lawyer, fierce civil libertarian and anti-Trump conservative whose perspicacious twitter essays on the grinding nastiness of America's criminal justice system have earned him a wide following.

As a civil libertarian who voted for and contributed to the Clinton campaign in 2016, I am critical as well of efforts to stretch these laws so as to target a president against whom I voted.

Failing to apply this concept to constitutionally protected emails, tweets, messages, and other forms of communication should concern every civil libertarian, even those who are anxious to find legal weapons with which to target President Trump.

Open government watchdog groups and civil libertarian lawmakers argue that new restrictions tied to any part of the terror watch list would more deeply entrench the controversial program, effectively ratifying the violation of constitutional due process protections.

"If there is anything more obnoxious to a civil libertarian than the punishment of speech after it has taken place, it is the issuance of a prior injunction to prevent speech in the first place," he wrote.

In 1926 they sent Hugo Black, the candidate of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan, to the Senate, where he became an architect of the New Deal (he later became a staunch civil libertarian on the Supreme Court).

Gorsuch is far from a consistent civil libertarian, but he did provide a crucial fifth vote in criminal justice cases, ruling that a sentencing enhancement provision was unconstitutionally vague and upholding the right to a jury trial.

The larger political context in which Trump is governing as the least civil libertarian president in a generation, mobilizing and implementing a massive political and cultural backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement, is not interesting to Dershowitz.

Read more " _____ Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine: "It is odd that this bout of civil-libertarian fervor should strike just days after House Republicans voted to renew section 702 of FISA … with no reforms or limits whatsoever.

A young liberal lawyer named Abner Mikva, who later became a distinguished federal judge, wrote a glowing review of the book, though he criticized Taylor for not going far enough and not being enough of a true civil libertarian.

By the same token, Dershowitz insists he's not defending Trump because he's suddenly become a right-winger — he's doing so because as a longtime progressive civil libertarian he's concerned about prosecutorial overreach and the FBI running amok to persecute an enemy.

A Jewish survivor of a Nazi death camp at Ravensbruck with the prisoner number 78651 tattooed on her arm, she was also a fervent European and civil libertarian, becoming the first directly elected president of the European parliament in 1979.

Lee's constitutionalism has given him something of a civil-libertarian streak: He's cautiously supportive of sentencing reform; he has attacked both Obama and Trump for engaging in military action without authorization; and his book attacks the National Security Agency's use of widespread surveillance.

Before we leave the court, do check out Linda Greenhouse's piece on the lessons Justice Kavanaugh should learn from the career of Justice Hugo Black, who ended life as an exemplary civil libertarian but began it as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

It's only the latest effort by progressive and civil libertarian activists to target Schiff and other national security-minded Democrats over their support for a bill that they say would only mildly reform a trio of government surveillance authorities set to expire by March 15.

Sanders first gained fame after an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster ripping a bipartisan tax deal; Cruz's tactics to shut down the government and Paul's civil-libertarian pushes helped both lawmakers win national prominence — and the Senate floor was their stage to achieve it.

When Mr. McConnell took to the Senate floor earlier Thursday to endorse the bill, he indicated that he knew that Mr. Lee and other civil-libertarian-minded lawmakers would objected that the bill did not go far enough, but made clear he did not intend to let them win.

Regarded as a civil libertarian and a feminist sensitive to the concerns of minorities, Judge Hufstedler was only the second woman named to the federal appellate bench and was widely considered the favorite to be the first woman nominated to the Supreme Court if a vacancy arose during the Carter administration.

Washington (CNN)In a surprisingly close vote, the Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that would keep in place a key electronic surveillance tool the government says it needs to track terrorists, barely overcoming objections from a bipartisan group of civil libertarian-focused senators who wanted to add changes to the bill.

Nat Hentoff, an author, journalist, jazz critic and civil libertarian who called himself a troublemaker and proved it with a shelf of books and a mountain of essays on free speech, wayward politics, elegant riffs and the sweet harmonies of the Constitution, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.

We know that it&aposs actually only supposed to be used as preventative detention in very limited cases where it deals with flight risk and other issues and I don&apost think that standard was in that today so that&aposs what he should be outraged about from a civil libertarian point of view.

"It sounds as though the proposed rules will go a long way towards restoring meaningful due process protections to the campus justice system, which will benefit both accusers and the accused," Robert L. Shibley, the executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a civil libertarian group, told the New York Times.

Such thinking has been circulating in Whitehall for a decade, but the radicalising effect of IS and the exit of civil libertarian Liberal Democrats from the government in May have given Mr Cameron the impetus and political freedom to pursue it more forcefully (in Downing Street this is seen as one of the four main issues that will define his second term).

Although the A.C.L.U.'s "colorblind logic" might be effective as a matter of litigation strategy — assuming that a male plaintiff can be substituted for a female, a Jehovah's Witness for a Santerían, a white supremacist for a civil rights activist, because the liberties, once won, will be available to all — this civil libertarian approach can yield problematic results given entrenched structural inequalities.

When I interned there for Frank Owen, who covered the underbelly of New York night life, in 1997, I didn't understand I was working with living legends at 36 Cooper Square, like the investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, who did the first in-depth exposé on Mr. Trump's businesses in the '70s, and Nat Hentoff, the civil-libertarian columnist, both of whom died last year.

The bill's introduction by a group of civil libertarian lawmakers comes weeks after a national security aide to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Trump finds consistent foil in 'Squad' MORE (R-Calif.) revealed that the NSA has shuttered its call-detail records program.

Ditto for the dangerously fact-free notion, disseminated ad nauseam by the likes of former Trump campaign aide George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosInspector general testifies on FBI failures: Five takeaways DOJ watchdog: Durham said 'preliminary' FBI Trump probe was justified Trump can't cry foul on FISA – unless he's suddenly a civil libertarian MORE (whose loose lips triggered the FBI probe), that Western intelligence agencies actively sought to "sabotage" or entrap Trump.

Ms. Dorfman found New York a bit overwhelming and went back to Boston, where she taught fifth grade and eventually married (her husband, Harvey Silverglate, a prominent criminal-defense lawyer and civil libertarian, is among her most-photographed subjects, along with their son, Isaac.) But her poetry connections led to something else, when Gary Snyder sent her a camera from Japan in 1967 and she began using it, despite not quite having the temperament she thought a real photographer should have.

In their introduction, Chabon and Waldman bemoan the fact that "nuance … seems to be in very short supply nowadays," and certainly I would have welcomed a nuanced consideration of how an organization based on civil libertarian principles might need to rethink its foundational assumptions to counter structural inequality, or how an organization whose catchphrase has been "We'll see you in court" will evolve in an era where the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, might favor the powerful over the powerless.

Horowitz reiterated Wednesday that the FBI opened the investigation in July 2016 after receiving information from a friendly foreign government about George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosInspector general testifies on FBI failures: Five takeaways DOJ watchdog: Durham said 'preliminary' FBI Trump probe was justified Trump can't cry foul on FISA – unless he's suddenly a civil libertarian MORE, another ex-Trump campaign adviser, saying the Russians had harmful information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocrats seek leverage for trial Davis: Trump vs.

Over four decades, he was instrumental in persuading the Greek military junta to release a friend, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou; raised funds to defend Daniel Ellsberg after Mr. Ellsberg was charged with leaking the Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War to The New York Times and other newspapers; helped urge Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman, to recognize Israel; and, as president of the Los Angeles Police Commission and a vocal civil libertarian, oversaw the campaign to oust Chief Daryl F. Gates and replace him with Willie L. Williams after the beating of Rodney King.

I will try to answer these questions from the perspective of a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE and for Democratic Senate and House candidates in the 2016 election, and who tries his best to be a neutral civil libertarian who would be making the same observations if the shoe were on the other foot, if Secretary Clinton were president and a special counsel were about to issue a report on her and her colleagues.

Conor Renier Friedersdorf is an American journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic, known for his civil libertarian perspectives.

In the domain of libertarian philosophy, the primary concern of the civil libertarian is the relationship of the government to the individual. In theory, the civil libertarian seeks to restrict this relationship to an absolute minimum in which the state can function and provide basic services and securities without excessively interfering in the lives of its citizens. One key cause of civil libertarianism is upholding free speech. Specifically, civil libertarians oppose bans on hate speech and obscenity.

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty was an American journalist, pacifist, civil libertarian, and advocate for the rights of prisoners, as well as the International Secretary for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Accessed January 20, 2013. The county was named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a British judge, civil libertarian, and defender of the American cause.Greenberg, Gail. County History , Camden County, New Jersey.

He won the Headliner Award in 1966 and the Freedoms Foundation Medal in 1966 and 1970. The Kentucky Civil Liberties Union named him Civil Libertarian of the Year in 1978, and he was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1987.

The Czech Republic has a number of prominent centrist parties, including the syncretic populist movement ANO 2011 (currently in government), the civil libertarian Czech Pirate Party, the long-standing Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party and the localist party Mayors and Independents.

The ruling did not apply to parochial or private schools in general. The decision has been met with both criticism and praise. Many social conservatives are critical of the court's reasoning, including the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Conversely, the ACLU and other civil libertarian groups hailed the court's decision.

It is generally opposed to the Christian right and promotes liberal positions on social issues such as gay rights, reproductive rights, and separation of church and state. This doesn't mean that all "secularists" believe these things, just the movement as a whole has moved in a more "liberal" or "civil libertarian" direction.

He also made possible the first free elections of village commissioners. He was considered a Progressive Republican and civil libertarian. On April 8, 1930, he created the only official government-run local post called "Guam Guard Mail". It used overprinted Philippine stamps for the 1st, 3rd, and 4th issues and a locally printed one for the 2nd.

Walter James Scott (23 December 1902 - 19 February 1985) was a notable New Zealand teacher, lecturer, educationalist, teachers’ college principal and civil libertarian. He was born in Hilton, South Canterbury, New Zealand in 1902. On 27 December 1928, Scott married Hectorina Jessie MacDonald at St Paul's Presbytarian Church, Invercargill.Title: New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1934 Author: Ancestry.

During his first session in 2013, Becker gained notoriety for being a staunch fiscal hawk and civil libertarian. He formed the Bastiat Caucus, named after the political philosopher Frédéric Bastiat. Eventually, the group grew to several dozen members of the North Dakota House, often holding regular meetings to organize a unified, conservative front on key votes.

While a partner there, Corcoran served as Arizona Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1965, Corcoran was an initial attorney on the landmark constitutional law case Miranda vs. Arizona. As a result of his efforts in the Miranda case, Corcoran received the ACLU Civil Libertarian of the Year Award. Corcoran joined the firm Powers, Boutell, Fannin & Kurn in 1973.

Lemieux was the eldest of six children in a Radio-Canada technician's family. He was educated at Collège Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal, and in 1965 obtained his law degree from McGill University, where he was influenced by civil libertarian Frank Scott. After being called to the bar in 1966, he went to work for O’Brien, Haume, Hall, Nolan, Saunders and Smythe.

Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 1984, pg 4, "Ottawa alderman in race for Pepin's seat" He was elected to that position earlier in the year.Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1984, pg 33, "Secretarial change" MacDougall's politics were described as "[f]iscally conservative [with a] strong streak of the civil libertarian". He supported affirmative action, and withstood opposition in the ward for supporting a grant to the Gays of Ottawa.

Bolton, John R. The Hatch Act: A Civil Libertarian Defense. Washington, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1976. Classification Act of 1949: established the classification standards program, this law states that positions are to be classified based on the duties and responsibilities assigned and the qualifications required to do the work. The position classifications standards are built on the foundation of the grade levels.

Lincoln Davenport Chafee was born on March 26, 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Virginia (née Coates) and John Chafee. Chafee's great- great-grandfather Henry Lippitt was Governor of Rhode Island. Among his great- great-uncles are Rhode Island Governor Charles Warren Lippitt and United States Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt. His great-uncle Zechariah Chafee was a Harvard law professor and a notable civil libertarian.

"'The main problems occupying most party representatives are too much traffic and air pollution, producing electricity from renewable sources, and waste management', says Hadas Shachnai of the Green Party, who represented Israel along with Mosi Raz of Meretz and environmental activist Eran Binyamini." In the international media, Meretz has been described as left-wing, far-left, social-democratic, dovish, secular, civil libertarian and anti-occupation.

He specialized in nineteenth and twentieth- century American history, particularly the Reconstruction Era, and the foreign policy of the early 20th century. He was a noted civil libertarian and advocate for academic freedom.Paul M. Buhle and Edward Rice-Maxim, William Appleman Williams: The Tragedy of Empire (New York: Routledge, 1995): 39; Michael Fellman, Views from the Dark Side of American History (LSU Press, 2011): 20.

E-book versions were released for the first, third and fourth printings; an audiobook was released with the second printing, and re-released with the fourth. The book has also been translated into Chinese, and was published in Beijing in 2010. The book was positively received by critics. Jeffrey Rosen, who reviewed the book for The New York Times, was surprised by the author's departure from traditional civil libertarian views.

Parliament responded with new legislation, and attitudes to universal suffrage and liberties progressed further in the aftermath of the first and second world wars. Since then, the United Kingdom's relationship to civil liberties has been mediated through its membership of the European Convention on Human Rights. The United Kingdom, through Sir David Maxwell- Fyfe, led the drafting of the Convention, which expresses a traditional civil libertarian theory.see e.g.

Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a politically active family. He was the son of Janet Melissa (née Hunter) and John Sharpe Chafee. His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was governor of Rhode Island (1875–1877) and among his great- uncles were a Rhode Island governor, Charles Warren Lippitt, and United States Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt. His uncle, Zechariah Chafee, was a Harvard law professor, and a notable civil libertarian.

Patten described the party as a "civil libertarian alternative". Patten is a veteran campaigner on issues such as censorship, equality, and discrimination. Patten was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2014 state election. The party was briefly federally deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on 5 May 2015, after an audit found that it could not demonstrate that it met the statutory requirement of 500 members, but was re-registered in July.

Hannan was a strident social conservative, and was disturbed by the nonchalance of his party to the new "permissive society". In August 1973, he lost Liberal preselection for the next federal election to Alan Missen, a noted civil libertarian and social liberal. However, he later said that his formation of a new party was "only indirectly connected with my loss of endorsement".HANNAN, GEORGE CONRAD (1910–2009), Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate.

Prominent attorney and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow heard the story of Mary's dismissal and went out of his way to aid the young woman. He obtained a job for her working as an office secretary for William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago — a position which included free college tuition at the university.Carney, Mary Marcy, pg. 4. Marcy took full advantage of this opportunity, studying psychology under John Dewey and taking advanced courses in literature and philosophy.

Upon the assumption to the presidency of Corazon Aquino, following the 1986 People Power Revolution, Sarmiento was appointed to the Board of Directors of San Miguel Corporation, which was then under government sequestration. In January 1987, President Aquino appointed Sarmiento as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court. He would serve on the High Court until he reached the compulsory retirement age of 70 in 1991. During his stint on the Court, Sarmiento held staunch civil libertarian views.

It also underwent a process of constant ideological evolution. Although the underlying ideology of the campaign was anti-colonial, it was supported by a vision of independent capitalist economic development coupled with a secular, democratic, republican, and civil-libertarian political structure. After the 1930s, the movement took on a strong socialist orientation. The work of these various movements ultimately led to the Indian Independence Act 1947, which ended the suzerainty in India, and the creation of Pakistan.

The Reason Party is an Australian political party founded in 2017. Its leader, Fiona Patten, describes the party as a "civil libertarian alternative". Patten was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as at the 2018 state election in the Northern Metropolitan Region, after formerly being elected as a Sex Party member for the same seat in the 2014 state election. Reason is registered at the state level in Victoria, where it has parliamentary representation, and as a Federal party.

Hentoff was a civil libertarian and free speech activist who opposed abortion and capital punishment. The American Conservative magazine called him "the only Jewish, atheist, pro-life, libertarian hawk in America." Although he supported the American Civil Liberties Union for many years, he criticized the organization in 1999 for defending government- enforced speech codes in universities and the workplace. He served on the board of advisors for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, another civil liberties group.

Over the years, America's Town Meeting became known for its interesting guests, many of whom were important newsmakers. Denny did not shy away from controversy: his panelists included Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, and civil libertarian Morris Ernst. But there were also guests from the world of literature (author Pearl Buck, poets Carl Sandburg and Langston Hughes) and a number of famous scientists, politicians, journalists, and public intellectuals.Sparling, p. 165.

Civil libertarianism is not a complete ideology; rather, it is a collection of views on the specific issues of civil liberties and civil rights. Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left in modern politics. For scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood, "there are doctrines of individualism that are opposed to Lockean individualism [...] and non-Lockean individualism may encompass socialism".Ellen Meiksins Wood.

The first civilian compilation of his work, Up Front, a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945. After war's end, the character of Willie was featured on the cover of Time Magazine for the June 18, 1945 issue. Mauldin made the cover of the July 21, 1961 issue. After the war, Mauldin turned to drawing political cartoons expressing a generally civil libertarian view associated with groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

Hope was known as a "university senator and chancellor, a patron and promoter of the performing arts, (and) a civil libertarian". He held a seat on the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1970 till 1975 when he became the first Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, a position he held until 1997. Hope was the Chairman of the New South Wales Heritage Council from 1978 to 1993 and was also the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission from 1990 to 1993.

He hosted the 1967 "Confederation of Tomorrow" conference in Toronto in an unsuccessful attempt to achieve an agreement for a new Constitution of Canada. Robarts opposed Canadian medicare when it was proposed, but later endorsed it fully, and the party implemented the public health care system that continues to this day. He led the party towards a civil libertarian movement. As a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, he opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.

Lucy Virginia Meriwether Davis Davies (April 18, 1862April 17, 1949) was one of New York State's first female physicians; she was also a botanist, civil libertarian, suffragist, philosopher and lover of music and art. She had studied medicine to escape a scandal after she eloped with and then killed her first husband. He had agreed it was self-defence before he died. She married again only to find out years later that her husband had two complete families and two wives.

The book was produced as a mini-series in the Soviet Union in 1985 by Valery Kharchenko. The majority of the characters were acted out by actors from Latvia and Estonia, both of which were then Soviet Socialist Republics. However, as it accused the American government of being run secretly, from behind the scenes, by an evil, tyrannical cabal and completely negated Wallace's own civil-libertarian arguments, he publicly disowned it. No other known adaptations of The R Document were produced during Wallace's lifetime.

Laskin was a liberal jurist who often found himself on the minority side of decisions. His specialty was labour law and constitutional law and he had a reputation as a civil libertarian. On matters of federalism under the Constitution Act, 1867, Laskin has been considered the most aggressive supporter of the federal powers of any justice since Confederation. This made for a stark contrast with fellow Justice Jean Beetz, who was known as one of the strongest supporters of provincial powers under the Constitution.

Hentoff espoused generally liberal views on domestic policy and civil liberties, but in the 1980s, he began articulating more socially conservative positions. He was opposed to abortion, voluntary euthanasia, and the selective medical treatment of severely disabled infants. He believed that a consistent life ethic should be the viewpoint of a genuine civil libertarian, arguing that all human rights are at risk when the rights of one group of people are diminished, that human rights are interconnected, and that people deny others' human rights at their peril.

The paper's funding was also cut by the approximate cost of the redacted issue. The faculty adviser, Tara Huber was named Journalism Teacher of the Year in 2014 by the Pennsylvania School Press Association. The Playwickian journalists were honored by the ACLU on October 8, 2014, receiving one of four Civil Libertarian Awards, and in December, 2014 by the Philadelphia City Council with a resolution commending their actions. The editors of the school newspaper continue to oppose the use of the name, but have been reprimanded for doing so by the school administration.

His vote against the government's proposal for 90 days' detention without trial for persons suspected of terrorism, as one of 49 Labour rebels, seemed to indicate a re-emergence of his civil libertarian instincts. Mullin criticised the Labour government's rotation of Ministers expressing his belief that the Blair Government changed Ministers too often and noted this in his final speech to the House of Commons. Whilst in government, Mullin voted against the Iraq War. After leaving government, Mullin also voted against the United Kingdom maintaining a nuclear deterrent.

Baxandall's maternal great uncle, Meyer London, was a U.S. Congressional Representative elected on the Socialist Party ticket in 1915. He was one of 50 Congressmen and six Senators to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. Rosalyn’s uncle, Ephraim London, a labor lawyer, was a distinguished civil libertarian and legal scholar. She attended Riverdale Country Day School and then Hunter High School, graduating in 1957. After high school she attended Smith College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin from which she graduated with a major in French in 1961.

Critics argued that the proposed law was too broad in its scope, and included vaguely defined categories in its list of serious offenses.Jim Brown, "Three-strike legislation draws heat from critics", Toronto Star, October 18, 2006, A8. Civil libertarian groups also argued that the bill threatened the constitutional principle of accused persons being presumed innocent until proven guilty, and suggested that it may not withstand a court challenge. Youth justice In August 2006, Toews told reporters that he was willing to consider lowering the age of criminal responsibility in Canada from twelve to ten.

William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898January 19, 1980) was an American jurist and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. His term, lasting 36 years and 211 days (1939–75), is the longest in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, Time magazine called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court".

Flynt was a Democrat when Bill Clinton was president. In 2013, he said he was "a civil libertarian to the core", though he once attempted a presidential run as a Republican in 1984. He is a staunch critic of the Warren Commission and offered $1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the assassin of John F. Kennedy. In 2003, Flynt was a candidate in the recall election of California governor Gray Davis, calling himself a "smut peddler who cares".Candidates, CNN August 6, 2003. He finished 7th in a field of 135 candidates with 17,458 votes (0.2%).

Cameron Lionel Murphy AM (born 30 March 1973) is an Australian barrister, civil libertarian and Labor Party political candidate. Murphy is a member of the New South Wales Bar Association and is admitted as a lawyer in NSW. He specialises in Industrial Law, Workplace Health & Safety, Administrative Law and Intellectual Property Law. He is best known for his role as the President of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties from 1999-2013 and was endorsed as the ALP candidate in the seat of East Hills for the March 2015 NSW state election, which he narrowly lost.

Louise Frankel Rosenfield Noun (March 7, 1908 – August 23, 2002) was a feminist, social activist, philanthropist, and civil libertarian. An Iowa native, Noun wrote extensively on the history of feminism in Iowa and the United States, writing four books on the subject and an autobiography. As president of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union from 1964 to 1972, she was actively involved and helped fund the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District case. In 1992, she accomplished a long-term goal and co-founded the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa with activist Mary Louise Smith.

And educators found it so useful that Denny and NBC put program listings and what the speakers had said into booklet form, which was disseminated to public school civics teachers. Over the years, America's Town Meeting became known for its interesting guests, many of whom were important newsmakers. Denny did not shy away from controversy: his panelists included Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, and civil libertarian Morris Ernst. The topics were meant to inspire discussion, and Denny tried to select subjects that would get people talking long after the show was over.

JBL: Selected Speeches and Essays in Honor of Justice Jose B.L. Reyes, p. 110 As a private practitioner, Reyes was among the founders of the Civil Liberties Union in 1937.JBL: Selected Speeches and Essays in Honor of Justice Jose B.L. Reyes, p. 102 His association with that group helped foster his lifelong reputation as a civil libertarian and an ardent nationalist. Within weeks after the Japanese invasion in 1941, Reyes helped organize the underground Free Philippines movement. His involvement with the resistance was soon exposed, and he was imprisoned by the Japanese in Fort Santiago in 1944.

Kahn was born Thomas John Marcel on September 15, 1938, and was immediately placed for adoption at the New York Foundling Hospital. He was adopted by the Jewish couple Adele and David Kahn, and renamed Thomas David Kahn. His father, a member of the Communist Party USA, became President of the Transport Workers Local 101 of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Tom Kahn was a civil libertarian who "ran for president of the Student Organization of Erasmus Hall High School in 1955 on a platform calling for the destruction of the student assembly, because it had no power", an election he lost.

Yvonne Isabel Nicholls nee Miles (20 February 1914 – 31 January 2009) was an Australian activist, author, civil libertarian, public speaker and teacher. Her notable accomplishments include heading a unit that photographed and catalogued science documents in Australia House during World War II, discovering a species of ant endemic to the Otway Ranges (Monomorian yvonnii), contributing to the 1967 referendum campaign to enable the Federal Government to make laws benefiting Aboriginal Australians, securing the patronage of the Thai Government for a former PEN English-language school in Bangkok, and amassing research through visits to more than 15 countries to develop her popular lecture entitled The Fascinating History of Sex.

The Freedom Party has opposed government restrictions on free speech and freedom of expression throughout its existence, arguing that the state has no right to intervene except in cases of fraud, defamation, or the commission of crimes such as sex with children. Marc Emery frequently challenged Canada's censorship laws during his years as an FPO organizer, via the private bookstore he operated in London. He continued to do so after resigning from FPO in 1990. The FPO took a civil libertarian stance on hate speech and the rights of individuals to express political opinions, whether those opinions are rational or irrational, unoffensive or offensive, popular or unpopular.

Although they may or may not personally condone behaviors associated with these issues, civil libertarians hold that the advantages of unfettered public discourse outweigh all disadvantages. Other civil libertarian positions include support for at least partial legalization of illicit substances (marijuana and other soft drugs), prostitution, abortion, privacy, assisted dying or euthanasia, the right to bear arms, youth rights, topfree equality, a strong demarcation between religion and politics and more recently support for same-sex marriage. With the advent of personal computers, the Internet, email, cell phones and other information technology advances a subset of civil libertarianism has arisen that focuses on protecting individuals' digital rights and privacy.

The party supports cultural and economic liberalism; this includes civil libertarian positions such as advocating liberalisation of drug laws and same-sex marriage, and an economics platform based on the ideas of the Austrian School. SaS launched a campaign called Referendum 2009 to hold a referendum on reforming and cutting the cost of politics. The party makes heavy use of the Internet: fighting the 2010 parliamentary election through Facebook and Twitter, with the party having 68,000 fans on Facebook by the election. The party narrowly failed to cross the 5% threshold at the 2009 European Parliament election, but came third, winning 22 seats, at the 2010 parliamentary election.

On 10 and 11 November, the team of civil libertarian barristers – led by Palkhivala – continuously argued against the Union government's application for reconsideration of the Kesavananda decision. Some of the judges accepted his argument on the very first day, the others on the next; by the end of the second day, the Chief Justice was reduced to a minority of one. On the morning of 12 November, Chief Justice Ray tersely pronounced that the bench was dissolved, and the judges rose. In effect, the doctrine was applied to the 39th Amendment of 1975, which attempted, among other provisions, to pass legislative judgment over the 1971 election of Indira Gandhi.

The libertarian faction has influenced the presidential level as well in the post-Bush era. Alaska Senator and presidential aspirant Mike Gravel left the Democratic Party midway through the 2008 presidential election cycle to seek the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, and many anti-war and civil libertarian Democrats were energized by the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of libertarian Republican Ron Paul. This constituency has arguably embraced the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns of independent Democrat Bernie Sanders for the same reasons. In the state of New Hampshire, libertarians operating from the Free State Project have been elected to various offices running as a mixture of both Republicans and Democrats.

Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth is a non-fiction book by attorney and civil libertarian Marjorie Heins about freedom of speech and the relationship between censorship and the "think of the children" argument. The book presents a chronological history of censorship from Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages to the present. It discusses notable censored works, including Ulysses by James Joyce, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence and the seven dirty words monologue by comedian George Carlin. Heins discusses censorship aimed at youth in the United States through legislation including the Children's Internet Protection Act and the Communications Decency Act.

Since 1984, during their final law school year, all students have participated in a Constitutional moot court program as part of the trial advocacy skills training. The Heisler Moot Court was established as a public forum for students to advocate pressing issues of constitutional rights in front of practicing judges and justices. The program was named to honor the legacy of Francis Heisler, a respected advocate for Constitutional rights and his wife, Friedy Heisler, a psychiatrist and noted civil libertarian. Upon opening the San Luis Obispo College of Law, the moot court program expanded to include the Andreen Moot Court, named in honor of the late Justice Kenneth Andreen of the Fifth District California Court of Appeal.

An estimated $80 million worth of property was damaged and Debs was found guilty of contempt of court for violating the injunction and sent to federal prison. Debs was represented by Clarence Darrow, later a leading American lawyer and civil libertarian, who had previously been a corporate lawyer for the railroad company. While it is commonly thought that Darrow "switched sides" to represent Debs, a myth repeated by Irving Stone's biography, Clarence Darrow For the Defense, he had in fact resigned from the railroad earlier, after the death of his mentor William Goudy. A Supreme Court case decision, In re Debs, later upheld the right of the federal government to issue the injunction.

Meyers is a fellow of the Westar Institute (home of the Jesus Seminar), and a frequent preacher and speaker at church conferences and communication workshops across the United States. He travels and lectures monthly in the United States on Progressive Christianity, has lectured in North Wales (Gladstone's Library) and toured Australia and New Zealand as the Common Dreams Lecturer in 2016. He has been a finalist for the pulpit of The Riverside Church on two occasions, the Earl Preacher at the Earl Lectures in Berkeley in 2000, and winner of the Angie Debo Civil Libertarian of the Year Award from the ACLU. Meyers has appeared on Dateline NBC, the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and ABC World News.

Judith Levine (born 1952) is an American author, journalist, civil libertarian and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contract and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater. She is a board member of the National Center for Reason and Justice About us, National Center for Reason and Justice and the Vermont chapter of the ACLU. Levine has written on sex, gender, aging, consumerism, and culture for dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, AARP The Magazine, and salon.com. Her column "Poli Psy" in the Vermont weekly Seven DaysSearch 7D, Seven Days, was named Best Political Column in 2006 by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

The BSA legal website provides a list of editorials written in support of the BSA. A conservative civil libertarian group, the American Civil Rights Union (not to be confused with the ACLU), set up the Scouting Legal Defense Fund, and routinely helped with lawsuits. In a legal brief filed in support of the BSA, the American Civil Rights Union argued that "To label [the BSA's membership policies] discriminatory and exclusionary, and a civil rights violation, is an assault on the very freedom of American citizens to advance, promote, and teach traditional moral values." In 2000, a group of current and former members of the BSA created the group "Save Our Scouts", in order "to support and defend the principles of the Scout Oath and Law".

In a biannual general assembly called Congrès National, all members of MJS come together to discuss and decide on general positions as well as concrete projects. There, the members also directly elect the president for a two-year period and appoint the members of the national office. Of several political currents within the MJS, a coalition of the centrist "Transformer à Gauche" (Transform to the left) and the Marxist "Offensive socialiste" (Socialist Offensive) dominated the 2009 Congress of Grenoble, successfully nominating Laurianne Deniaud for president. A minority movement of "Jeunes Socialistes pour la renovation" (Young socialists for renewal) and "La Relève" (The Uprise) calling for organizational changes including more transparency and grassroots democracy couldn't prevail, neither could the civil libertarian wing.

O'Gorman specialises in criminal law, yet it was the area of Aboriginal Aid in which he first commenced his legal career. An influential member of the QCCL, "it was during the days as a university student and under the rule of Joh Bjelke-Petersen that he first became aware of the need to protect civil rights." In 2008 O'Gorman commented that "civil liberties on the streets have improved, but the battle has moved to a 'law and order auction' being played out in the media, which used to be centred around the political cycle but now appears to be a permanent fixture.""Civil Libertarian and Criminal Lawyer Terry O'Gorman" ABC Local conversations with Richard Fidler 7 Aug 2008. Abc.net.au. Web.

As a civil libertarian, and a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, Robarts opened the door to French language education in Ontario schools. In 1972 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Nicknamed "the Chairman of the Board" during his tenure, Robarts is remembered for his steps to promote and improve education, he was responsible for the construction of five new universities including York University, the establishment of the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place, the creation of numerous teacher's colleges, the creation of the community college system, the GO Transit commuter rail system, introducing nuclear power to Ontario's electricity grid, and launching the Ontario Scholar fund for high school students graduating with an A average.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has accused Gatestone's founder, Nina Rosenwald, of anti-Muslim bias. Muslim writers for the Gatestone Institute have defended the organization and Rosenwald against the claims by CAIR. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said, "It goes without saying, but to those who may not know Nina, and having known her now for many years, it is clear to me that she has the highest respect for Muslims who love their faith, love God, and take seriously our Islamic responsibility to defeat the global jihad and its Islamist inspiration." Alan Dershowitz, a civil libertarian lawyer and academic who contributes to Gatestone, also defended the organization against charges of anti-Muslim bias.

Thomas Clarkson, a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire, is the book's central figure Bury the Chains is a narrative history of the antislavery movement in the United Kingdom. It follows a group of British abolitionist activists and chronicles their successful campaign to end slavery in the British Empire. The group includes Granville Sharp, an unconventional civil libertarian; Thomas Clarkson, a University of Cambridge graduate who dedicated his life to the antislavery campaign; John Newton, a former slave ship captain turned Evangelical preacher; William Wilberforce, an English politician and close friend of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger; and Olaudah Equiano, a former slave who bought his freedom and became an abolitionist writer. The book starts out with an overview of slavery and the slave trade in 18th-century Britain.

The movement to legalize cannabis in the U.S. was sparked by the 1964 arrest of , a San Francisco man who walked into the city's Hall of Justice and lit up a joint, requesting to be arrested. As it was a felony to use cannabis in California, Eggemeier was sent to prison where he was held for close to a year. Eggemeier was defended by James R. White, an attorney who had not taken a drug case before nor was he much familiar with cannabis, but took interest in the matter as a devoted civil libertarian (describing himself as "to the right of Barry Goldwater"). While researching the case, White became a strong proponent for the legalization of cannabis, and went on to found LEMAR (shortened version of LEgalize MARijuana) in December 1964.

" According to Frank, "the Disco Demolition triggered a nationwide expression of anger against disco that caused disco to recede quickly from the American cultural landscape". Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh described Disco Demolition Night as "your most paranoid fantasy about where the ethnic cleansing of the rock radio could ultimately lead". Marsh was one who, at the time, deemed the event an expression of bigotry, writing in a year-end 1979 feature that "white males, eighteen to thirty-four are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins, and therefore they're the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security. It goes almost without saying that such appeals are racist and sexist, but broadcasting has never been an especially civil-libertarian medium.

Presided over by Chief Justice Ajit Nath Ray, the court had to determine the degree to which amendments were restricted by the basic structure theory. Ray, who was among the dissenters in the Kesavananda Bharati case, had been promoted to Chief Justice of India on 26 April 1973, superseding three senior Judges, Shelat, Grover and Hegde (all in the majority in the same case), which was unprecedented in Indian legal history. On November 10 and 11, the team of civil libertarian barristers, led by Nanabhoy Palkhivala, argued against the Union government's application for reconsideration of the Kesavananda decision. Some of the judges accepted his argument on the very first day, the others on the next; by the end of the second day, the Chief Justice was reduced to a minority of one.

This incident also led to Evans coining the expression 'streaker's defence' (i.e. 'it seemed like a good idea at the time), which has entered the Australian vocabulary.See for example More serious controversy surrounded the Government's handling of national security issues including the Combe-Ivanov affair and the attempted suppression of publication of leaked documents by journalist Brian Toohey, and the allegations of impropriety made against High Court Justice Lionel Murphy, all of which created stress for Evans as an avowed civil libertarian. He achieved a number of reforms, including the establishment of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the National Crime Authority, the strengthening of the Family Law and Freedom of Information Act, and some business regulation changes, but failed in his attempts to achieve uniform national defamation law, a legislative bill of rights, and constitutional reform.

The party criticized both the inflationist policies of the Democrats and the protectionism of the Republicans. Almost a "who's who" of classical liberals gave the party their support. They included President Cleveland; E. L. Godkin, the editor and publisher of The Nation; Edward Atkinson, a Boston fire insurance executive, textile manufacturer and publicist for free market causes; Spencer Trask, a New York financier and philanthropist; Horace White, the editor of the Chicago Tribune and later the New York Evening Post; and Charles Francis Adams Jr., a leading political reformer and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams. Two other supporters of Palmer and Buckner became better known in the decades after 1896: Moorfield Storey, the first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the journalist Oswald Garrison Villard, an anti- imperialist and civil libertarian.

In 1993, Brian Kerr was appointed a Judge of the High Court and knighted, and in 2004 was appointed Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, only the second Roman Catholic to hold the position, and sworn of the Privy Council. Kerr regards the introduction in 1971 of internment without trial in Northern Ireland as having been "calamitous for the rule of law”. However, he assesses his Troubles-era experience of the non-jury Diplock courts, introduced to prevent intimidation by paramilitaries, as broadly positive. Citing the "distinguished civil libertarian", Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, he proposes that the non-jury system (in which there was an automatic right of repeal) "was in some senses superior to the jury trial.” As is tradition for the Lord Chief Justice, he succeeded Lord Carswell as the Northern Irish Lord of Appeal in Ordinary upon the latter's retirement.

The second main grouping in the Conservative Party is the "free-market wing" of economic liberals who achieved dominance after the election of Margaret Thatcher as party leader in 1975. Their goal was to reduce the role of the government in the economy and to this end, they supported cuts in direct taxation, the privatisation of nationalised industries and a reduction in the size and scope of the welfare state. Supporters of the "free-market wing" have been labelled as "Thatcherites". The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Anglican but the free- market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of former party leaders William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith.

Justice Cleckley established the Franklin D. Cleckley Foundation in 1990, for the purpose of providing assistance for the educational and employment needs of people with prior criminal records. He has been honored with many awards that include: the West Virginia Civil Liberties Union "Civil Libertarian of the Year Award"; the West Virginia Common Cause Award for Public Service; the "Civil Rights Award" from the West Virginia Human Rights Commission; the West Virginia NAACP's Thurgood Marshall Award; the Neil S. Bucklew Award for Social Justice; and the West Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Public Citizen of the Year Award. The Justice Franklin D. Cleckley Fellowship was named and created in his honor by the West Virginia University College of Law, in conjunction with the University of Chicago Law School. The fellowship provides a two-year position with the West Virginia Innocence Project.

After retirement Wood managed his farm, Rosewood Glen, in Owings Mills MD with his wife Rose and his children, Peter Bryson, Thomas Carson, James McIntosh, David Abbott, and Roberta Morgan. He became President of the Garrison Woods Farmers Association, and was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. His son William Maxwell Jr attended the US Naval Academy and had a successful career as a Naval Officer. His son Charles Erskine Scott (CES) attended the US Military Academy at West Point whereupon graduation he was assigned to the Northwest US. He is noted for being General Howard's adjutant during the Nez Perce War and transcribed Nez Perce Chief Joseph's surrender speech, eventually becoming a close friend of Chief Joseph, ultimately leaving the military life for a successful legal career in Portland OR, before becoming a noted author and civil libertarian in Portland, Oregon and Los Gatos, California.

Dennis Miller, with no prior experience in radio, hosted a national conservative talk show from 2007 to 2015. There has been a relative dearth of new radio hosts launched into national syndication since the late 2000s, in part due to personnel declines at local talk stations; most new national hosts have jumped to talk radio from other media (examples include Dennis Miller, a stand-up comic; Fred Thompson, Herman Cain and Mike Huckabee, all former Republican Presidential candidates; the late Jerry Doyle, an actor; and Erick Erickson, a professional blogger). This has also opened up opportunities for less orthodox hosts than were common in the 1990s and 2000s; civil libertarian/nationalist Alex Jones, who spent most of the 2000s as a radio host heard primarily on shortwave, began securing syndication deals with mainstream conservative-talk radio stations during the presidency of Barack Obama. The genre has also lost ground in listenership.

He also recommended the creation of the office of Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to oversee and hold accountable the various agencies. As if to highlight the need for such a position, only the same year RCASIA was commissioned, the Security Appeals Tribunal ruled in a case against ASIO where they had given an unfavourable security assessment on a member of the Australian Communist Party, that "membership of the Communist Party of Australia did not warrant a recommendation against the grant of access to classified national security material (such as required by their job – Ed.). A nexus between the applicant and particular activities of security interest needed to be shown" – all very much in keeping with Hope's civil libertarian position and a marker of where the Australian intelligence and security agencies saw their priorities in the pre-Hilton Bombing environment. In 1986 the ASIO Act was amended to take into consideration the recommendations of Hope in the RCASIA.

The Institute's Independent Policy Forum includes seminars by historians and economists including James M. Buchanan, legal scholars, foreign policy experts, criminologists, authors of such disparate personality and political temperament as Gore Vidal and P. J. O'Rourke, human rights leaders, scientists, jurists, journalists, and business leaders. Its program in criminal justice sponsored a series of televised debates on PBS-TV, Stopping Violent Crime: New Directions for Reduction and Prevention, moderated by Harvard law professor Arthur R. Miller, and former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Federal Judge David Sentelle, civil libertarian writer Wendy Kaminer, and others. In 2006 the Institute opened an office in Washington and expanded its media program, including a weekly column by Senior Fellow Álvaro Vargas Llosa in the Washington Post. In 2006 the Institute released an Open Letter on Immigration, signed by more than 500 economists, including five Nobel laureates, and received editorial endorsements in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.