Donna Lieberman
Donna Lieberman
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New York City must meet its legal obligation to arraign arrestees in a timely manner.
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It seems the court officers need a bit of a lecture about fundamental rights and their obligation to respect them.
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In many other cases materials are involved in the case under seal. But here it's classified. It's impossible for a defendant to have a fair trial when the courts are acting without input, and there's no way for a defense counsel to have input if he doesn't know what the other side is saying.
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The military has targeted a vulnerable group of young people. We send our children to school to get an education, not to become military targets.
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This government can't figure out the difference between legal First Amendment rights to criticize the government and terrorism. So we have cause for concern.
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This is a chronic problem that daily impacts all New Yorkers, especially communities of color. It disproportionately impacts the African American and Latino communities.
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Of course, the students can hang up on them, Who is going to hang up on Uncle Sam when he comes calling?
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New York has continued to violate the rights of the people it arrests even after the Court of Appeals ruled that arrestees must see a judge within 24 hours of their arrests. The city is failing to comply with the law, and it's up to the City Council to set things right.
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A swab on the outside of a bag is far less invasive than rifling through the personal belongings. We don't yet have enough information about whether this is an effective security measure that does the least possible harm to personal privacy.
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It should never have gotten to this point. There is absolutely no reason why a person with a hand-held camera needs permission to shoot footage on the streets of New York City.
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It's one thing to give out your materials, it's quite another to bully and intimidate students.
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Instead of addressing the real problem, which is enforcement, the City Council has chosen to enact an overly broad bill that criminalizes a cultural activity. We live in a city that is the cultural capital of the world, yet it is a crime for a young adult to carry a magic marker. What's next -- watercolors or crayons?
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The policy of searching thousands of subway riders daily without any suspicion that they have done anything wrong is unprecedented, unproductive and unconstitutional.
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When you're arrested in New York City, there's a good chance you'll do the time without being convicted of doing the crime. It's a perversion of justice.