Civil Libertarian

If a civil-libertarian Pinochet figure is possible, might a libertarian, in good conscience, be able to endorse that? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the leading civil-libertarian institutions to have fought Guantanamo for seven years, just put out this statement: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Boy, Matt, you sure know how to put up my civil-libertarian hackles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, an update on something we reported earlier: a money bomb fund-raiser to jumpstart a new civil-libertarian, anti-war political action committee yielded $150,000 on Friday – likely a disappointment to the organizers, who had hoped to take in $1 million. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A neat trick in a series infused with roughly the same lofty sermonizing attitudes as the ones the writers have assigned to the characters of all those designed-to-be-ludicrous civil-libertarian mouthpieces trying to get murderers off. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2010)

As for myself, I'm a fiscally conservative, civil-libertarian progressive who's going to go to the polls and hold his nose while voting against McCain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The HIAA has been lulled into the classic civil-libertarian response that doing so would be an invasion of privacy. ❋ Fredrick McKissack Jr. (2009)

But for now, can we count on your current mood of anti-government skepticism to result in a durable civil-libertarian consensus? ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the anti-death-penalty side, however, the cost-cutting argument runs counter to their stated principles, at least if they claim to be promoting a more broadly civil-libertarian approach to criminal justice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike her majority opinions, her dissents sometimes show flashes of civil-libertarian passion or indignation, even as they remain closely grounded in facts and precedents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You've apparently missed how Steny Hoyer has placed Obama on the horns of a civil-libertarian vs. "national security" dilemma by forcing a vote on the hideous warrantless wiretapping/telecom amnesty bill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the civil-libertarian case for capital punishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That, my civil-libertarian conscience immediately reminds me, is the price the society must pay for a system that safeguards the falsely accused, and I subside. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It was about upholding the rule of law, not about what was appropriate from a civil-libertarian standpoint or any other standpoint." ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Democrats head into election season, those who vote for the measure will have to contend with anger from civil-libertarian constituents. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At stake aren't the abstractions of some civil-libertarian seminar, but people's lives. ❋ Unknown (2008)