[$tinkle]

"if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"

Miami Herald

"The Florida ACLU filed court papers Monday supporting Limbaugh's argument that state investigators violated his constitutional right to privacy when they seized his medical records in November to investigate whether he violated drug laws when he purchased prescription painkillers."

Ann Coulter needs to take a shower. Ummbikes & Damn True to monitor activity.

 

[ummbikes]

Originally posted by $tinkle
"if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"

Miami HeraldAnn Coulter needs to take a shower. Ummbikes & Damn True to monitor activity.

This is very interesting and ironic.

Hold on I need to swallow this bile that rising up.

I hope that Limabaugh is able to have his right to privacy defended and that conservatives realize the same constitution that defends Rush's privacy also defends Larry Flints.

The one I worry about is Manimal. He hates the ACLU.

 

[$tinkle]

as it turns out, this was a gift from the ACLU, for today is Rush's 52nd birthday:

hey, does anyone care if i make this my avatar?

let the baby-fat jokes commence.

 

[manimal]

Originally posted by ummbikes
This is very interesting and ironic.

Hold on I need to swallow this bile that rising up.

I hope that Limabaugh is able to have his right to privacy defended and that conservatives realize the same constitution that defends Rush's privacy also defends Larry Flints.

The one I worry about is Manimal. He hates the ACLU.

yes, i generally hate the ACLU as their worthwhile to worthless case ratio is pretty crappy.......but.....the law does work for both sides. I just hope they don't try to make him out as a victim of society like most of their other cases

 

[golgiaparatus]

Originally posted by manimal
I just hope they don't try to make him out as a victim of society like most of their other cases

What else does the aclu do nope I think thats about all the ever have up their sleeve.

 

[Silver]

Originally posted by manimal
yes, i generally hate the ACLU as their worthwhile to worthless case ratio is pretty crappy.......but.....the law does work for both sides. I just hope they don't try to make him out as a victim of society like most of their other cases

Here's a few you're probably not a big fan of:

1927 Whitney v. California
Though the Court upheld a conviction for membership in a group that advocated the overthrow of the state, Justice Brandeis explained, in a separate opinion, that under the "clear and present danger test" the strong presumption must be in favor of "more speech, not enforced silence." That view, which ultimately prevailed, laid the groundwork for modern First Amendment law.

1931 Stromberg v. California
The ACLU argued successfully that the conviction of a communist for displaying a red flag should be overturned because it was based on a state law that was overly vague, in violation of the First Amendment.

1937 DeJonge v. Oregon
A landmark First Amendment case, in which the Court held that the defendant's conviction under a state criminal syndicalism statute merely for attending a peaceful Communist Party rally violated his free speech rights.

1943 West Virginia v. Barnette
A groundbreaking decision, made more resonant by its issuance in wartime. The Court championed religious liberty with its holding that a state could not force Jehovah's Witness children to salute the American flag.

1948 Shelley v. Kraemer
An important civil rights decision that invalidated restrictive covenants -- contractual agreements between white homeowners in a residential area barring the sale of houses to black people.

1949 Terminiello v. Chicago
Protection for offensive speech expanded with the Court's exoneration of an ex-priest convicted of disorderly conduct for giving a racist, anti-semitic speech that "invited dispute." Justice William O. Douglas, for the Court, noted that "the function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute."

1952 Burstyn v. Wilson
Artistic freedom triumphed when the Court overruled its 1915 holding that movies "are a business, pure and simple," and decided that New York State's refusal to license "The Miracle" violated the First Amendment. The state censor had labeled the film "sacrilegious."

1958 Kent v. Dulles
The Court ruled that the State Department had exceeded its authority in denying artist Rockwell Kent a passport because he refused to sign a "noncommunist affidavit." The right to travel, said the Court, is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

1964 Escobedo v. Illinois
Invoking the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, the Court threw out the confession of a man whose repeated requests to see his lawyer, throughout many hours of police interrogation, were ignored.

1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
Among the 20th century's most influential decisions. It invalidated a Connecticut law forbidding the use of contraceptives on the ground that a right of "marital privacy," though not specifically guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, is protected by "several fundamental constitutional guarantees."

1968 Epperson v. Arkansas
The Court ruled that Arkansas had violated the First Amendment, which forbids official religion, with its ban on teaching "that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals."

1968 King v. Smith
The court invalidated a "man in the house" rule that denied welfare to children whose mother was living with a man, unmarried. The decision benefited an estimated 500,000 poor children, who had previously been excluded from aid.

1971 Cohen v. California
Reversed the conviction of a man who allegedly disturbed the peace by wearing a jacket that bore the words, "**** the draft," while walking through a courthouse corridor. The Court rejected the notion that the state can prohibit speech just because it is "offensive."

1972 Eisenstadt v. Baird
Extending Griswold, this decision overturned the conviction of a reproductive rights activist who had given an unmarried woman in Massachusetts a contraceptive device. The Court held that allowing distribution of contraceptives to married, but not unmarried, people violated the Equal Protection Clause.

1989 Texas v. Johnson
This First Amendment invalidation of the Texas flag desecration statute provoked the newly inaugurated George Bush to propose a federal ban on flag burning ormutilation. Congress swiftly obliged, but the Court struck down the law a year later in United States v. Eichman -- in which the ACLU also filed a brief. Both rulings were big victories for symbolic political speech.

1993 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah A religious freedom victory for unusual, minority religions. The Court held that local ordinances adopted by the City of Hialeah, banning the ritual slaughter of animals as practiced by the Santeria religion, but permitting such secular activities as hunting and fishing, violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

1997 Reno v. ACLU
The Court struck down the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which censored the Internet by banning "indecent" speech. A major First Amendment victory for the information age.



You might want to stay away from the URL, there's a whole list of decisions in there that may just cause your head to explode.



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[gorgechris]

Yeah, that darn ACLU, always protecting people's constitutional rights! As if John Ashcroft didn't already have enough work on his hands.

 

[valve bouncer]

Originally posted by gorgechris
Yeah, that darn ACLU, always protecting people's constitutional rights! As if John Ashcroft didn't already have enough work on his hands.

Yeah they suck, don't they.....everyone should just tremble and obey.