City Brief Makes Same Arguments as Bloomberg Administration Despite Claims of New Vision for New York New York–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Despite Mayor de Blasio’s claims that he had a new vision for the City of New York and his dismantling of the New York Police Department (NYPD) Muslim spying unit,[Read More…]
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Department of Defense Press Briefing by General Rodriguez Re: Update on U.S. Contributions to the Effort Against Ebola, Oct. 7, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. REAR ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY: Afternoon, everybody. I’m proud to welcome into the briefing room General David Rodriguez, commander of Africa Command. He’s here to give you an update on U.S. contributions to the effort against Ebola — U.S. military contributions to the effort against Ebola in[Read More…]
Washington’s Stevens County Urges Citizens to Kill Endangered Wolves
Conservation Groups Call on State to Stop Disclosing Wolf Locations to County OLYMPIA, Wash.–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Conservation groups today called on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to stop providing wolf location information to Stevens County, which recently adopted resolutions claiming a constitutional right to kill wolves and exhorting[Read More…]
Clean Air, National Park Advocates Challenge EPA Failure to Protect Grand Canyon from Navajo Generating Station Pollution
Advocates Appeal Decision that Allows Controversial Coal Plant to Keep Polluting for Decades GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Clean air and national park advocates today challenged a decision in federal court, issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that allows one of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired[Read More…]
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms the Freedom to Marry
New York –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed same-sex couples’ freedom to marry in cases out of Idaho and Nevada. The ruling paves also the way for the freedom to marry in Alaska, Montana, and Arizona. Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, released the[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Twitter Lawsuit Challenging Government Restrictions on Surveillance Disclosures
NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Twitter sued the government today seeking to make public more information about how much user data it is being forced to hand over on national security grounds. The government says that Twitter’s transparency reports can address surveillance orders like National Security Letters only in very[Read More…]
Twitter Taking the Fight for #Transparency to Court
San Francisco, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. As part of our latest transparency report released in July, we described how we were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. Our ability to speak has been restricted by laws that prohibit and even[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Ninth Circuit Ruling for Marriage Equality
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today in favor of marriage equality, which is expected to bring the number of marriage equality states to 35 in short order. “This is another great legal moment this week for loving and committed couples. Today’s decision reflects the reality that[Read More…]
Federal Appeals Court Limits ‘Mandatory’ Immigration Detention
ACLU class action lawsuit argued federal government wrongly incarcerated more than 100 people a year in Massachusetts jails under “mandatory detention” provision. BOSTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. In a ruling that could enable more than 100 Massachusetts detainees per year to argue for their freedom, the U.S. Court of Appeals for[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Jen Psaki,Oct. 7, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014 – 1:05 p.m. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. QUESTION: Hi. QUESTION: Hello. QUESTION: Good Tuesday. MS. PSAKI: Happy Tuesday. Hi, Samir. Okay. I have two items for all of you at the top. General Allen and Ambassador McGurk are in Amman today, where they met with[Read More…]
