ACLU First Amendment Minutes For January 2010

1.31.10
ACLU First Amendment Minute: Cold Winter of the Great Recession
In this cold winter of this Great Recession does the Constitution do the hungry and the homeless any good?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Life Without Parole
Almost all of the 100 people in the world serving a sentence of life without parole for crimes committed as a juvenile in which no one was killed are locked up in one country.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A Venerable Democracy
Today's freedom of speech question: In a venerable democracy, when a citizen posts online a video of a government official lying, what's the likely result?

1.27.10
ACLU First Amendment Minute: Police Misconduct
Police misconduct, lying on the witness stand, in New York City has become institutionalized. Who said that?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A New Record
The USA has set another all-time record!

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Wikileaks.org
Can WikiLeaks.org survive? It's a website that publishes documents that someone, somewhere thinks should be made public, and then dares the government, any government, to try to shut it down.

1.07.10
ACLU First Amendment Minute: A Hot Stock Tip
Today, for a change of pace, we have a hot stock pick. Though the interested investor probably needs a Teflon-lined stomach.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: An Irritated Driver
An automobile driver, as the New York Times so delicately put it, "gestured offensively with his middle finger," at another driver who, whoops, turned out to be a cop. The result may surprise you.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Ed Meese
Ed Meese, Ronald Regan's law-and-order Attorney General, who once blasted the ACLU for being what he called, "part of the criminals' lobby," now is standing before the US Supreme Court, shoulder to shoulder, with the ACLU.

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