Civil Liberties

Lying? The Letter From RIDOH To The Bristol Warren School District! Plus! Did They Really Turn Down The Volume On Public Comment?

This is the letter received by the Bristol Warren School District … No mention of fines, despite the assertion of the Bristol Warren School District Attorney. According to the Rhode Island Department of Health, no School Districts have been fined for masking non compliance From The Rhode Island Department Of[Read More…]

by December 14, 2021

Governor McKee, RI Department of Health to Announce Comprehensive Actions to Address Increase in COVID-19 Cases, Alleviate Pressure on Hospital System

Governor Dan McKee and Rhode Island Department of Health Director Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH will announce a comprehensive set of actions to address an increase in COVID-19 cases and alleviate pressure on our hospital system while at the same time keeping schools open for in-person learning and preventing economic disruptions to small businesses. WHO Governor[Read More…]

by December 14, 2021

America’s First Legal Claims “Monumental Victories”: SCOTUS Rejects Efforts To Block Texas Heartbeat Act & Rejects Biden DOJ’S Emergency Appeal. AFL Head Honcho Stephen Miller Spikes The Football

On Friday, December 10, America First Legal issued the following statements: This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered emphatic victories to AFL in two cases involving SB8, the Texas Heartbeat Act. In the first decision, the Supreme Court rejected abortion providers’ attempt to immunize themselves from private civil[Read More…]

by December 12, 2021

Is The Rhode Island Department Of Labor & Training About To Employ Facial Recognition Technology? They Won’t Say. And The ACLU Is Suing Them

    Is the R.I. Department of Labor and Training (DLT) planning to use facial recognition technology to process unemployment claims? The agency doesn’t want the public to know, so the ACLU of Rhode Island today filed an open records lawsuit to find out. The suit is in response to[Read More…]

by November 30, 2021

AFL Files Lawsuit Against Biden Administration, Challenging The Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees

This week, on behalf of a courageous federal employee, America First Legal sued the Biden Administration to block its unlawful and unconstitutional federal civilian employee vaccine mandate. Representing a dedicated, twenty-year civilian employee of the Department of the Navy with natural immunity to COVID-19, AFL has brought this case because[Read More…]

by November 25, 2021

CPJ-The Committee To Protect Journalists Calls On Facebook To Restore Press Freedom Awards Video Following Takedown

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Facebook to restore a video honoring the winners of the International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA) at CPJ’s annual awards ceremony held on November 18 and streamed on social media during the event. Less than an hour after the stream ended, Facebook notified[Read More…]

by November 25, 2021

Attorney General Candidate Chas Calenda On Rittenhouse Verdict!

  Politics and criminal prosecutions are a bad mix. Any fair-minded person could see that during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin over the last several weeks. In what can only be described as a politically-motivated, bad faith prosecution initiated by the Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office, justice was[Read More…]

by November 19, 2021

Flash: The Appeal!

 

by November 17, 2021

Lawsuit Challenges Rhode Island ACI Prisoner’s 8 Months In Solitary Confinement For Free Speech Activity

In a case that alleges numerous constitutional violations by the state Department of Corrections, attorneys for the R.I. Center for Justice and the ACLU of Rhode Island have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a man who, the suit claims, spent almost eight months in solitary confinement at the ACI in[Read More…]

by November 15, 2021

“School Mask Lawsuit – ACTION REQUIRED” Anti Mask Mandate Parents “Request” Meeting With Ruggerio & Shekarchi

The following missive was sent by the plaintiffs, the parents of children that are the target of the School Mask Mandate, to Rhode Island Senate President Ruggerio & Rhode Island Speaker Shekarchi. As noted by the litigants, “Judge Lanphear ruled strongly in our favor on the issue of irreparable harm[Read More…]

by November 15, 2021