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

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 Dan McKee Rhode Island Department of Health Director Nicole Alexander-Scott,[Read More…]

by — December 14, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
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

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 lawsuits authorized by SB8. The Court held that judges, court[Read More…]

by — December 12, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
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 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 the DLT’s refusal to provide the ACLU any documents in[Read More…]

by — November 30, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
AFL Files Lawsuit Against Biden Administration, Challenging The Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees

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 no law authorizes what President Biden and his Administration have[Read More…]

by — November 25, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
CPJ-The Committee To Protect Journalists Calls On Facebook To Restore Press Freedom Awards Video Following Takedown

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 CPJ that the video had been withheld worldwide because of[Read More…]

by — November 25, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Attorney General Candidate Chas Calenda On Rittenhouse Verdict!

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 finally realized today when a jury acquitted Mr. Rittenhouse of[Read More…]

by — November 19, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties

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by — November 17, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Lawsuit Challenges Rhode Island ACI Prisoner's 8 Months In Solitary Confinement For Free Speech Activity

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 retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights. The suit, filed[Read More…]

by — November 15, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
"School Mask Lawsuit - ACTION REQUIRED" Anti Mask Mandate Parents "Request" Meeting With Ruggerio & Shekarchi

“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 … a rebuke of RIDOH’s position that masking children for[Read More…]

by — November 15, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
STATEMENT OF PLAINTIFFS ON DECISION REGARDING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ISSUED IN SOUTHWELL V MCKEE

STATEMENT OF PLAINTIFFS ON DECISION REGARDING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ISSUED IN SOUTHWELL V MCKEE

We are grateful that the Judge recognized the significant and irreparable harm being suffered by children in this state who are subject to mandatory mask wearing in schools for up to 8 hours a day. As the Judge stated: “The Court finds that these children are suffering and reasonably infers that children across the state are suffering with the mask[Read More…]

by — November 14, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
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