Stop and Frisk policies are controversial because of claims of racial bias in implementation.
In August 2015, the ACLU and the Chicago police department reached a consent agreement to scale back stop and frisk. The ACLU-Illinois website describes the accomplishment:
It seems like ancient history, but the original and replacement Travel Orders were meant to be temporary, to provide time for a security review.
Those Orders were demagogued as “Muslim bans” when they clearly were not. They applied to the seven highest risk countries for terrorist visa infiltration as identified by the...
In one of the dumber things to have happened this week (and that’s a title that’s increasingly difficult to bestow), the ACLU sent what to most normal people would be a perfectly acceptable tweet.
This one:
Late last night a federal judge in Hawaii issued an Order scaling back the Trump administration’s implementation of the Travel Order.
The judge disagreed with the Trump administration as to who would be considered a “close familial relationship” under the Supreme Court’s ruling. The Hawaii judge ruled that “grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts,...
