Anthony Romero
Anthony Romero
Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He assumed the position in 2001 as the first Latino and openly gay man to do so...
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth9 July 1965
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There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.
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It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.
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A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.
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President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.
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Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out — whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,
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When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
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Any opinion coming from the Justice Department has to be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. Congress must hold open, substantive hearings to let the American public know how their privacy was invaded.
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This confirms many of the fears about Gonzales' appointment ? that he would not be sufficiently independent from the president and that he would play the role of a crony.
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Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark, acted unconstitutionally. And but for the actions of Edward Snowden, we would still be in a very dark place.
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Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.
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The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mortgage rates are starting to creep up a bit,
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President Bush and his surrogates can justify this program all they want, but they cannot change the underlying fact that it remains an illegal program. The continued approval for this unlawful program undermines the very freedoms and values that define America.
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The idea that he can tap and intercept the communications of American citizens without any judicial order and without the approval of Congress, we find is just untenable.
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There is no question that US interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.