[discuss-dan] 01-16-01 -- ACLU Issues Report on Ashcroft Civil Liberties Record

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"John Ashcroft's record demonstrates that he is willing to change the law
to impose his particular religious and moral views on all Americans.
Integrity in pursuit of such a goal is no virtue."

    -- Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington National Office

As a non-partisan organization that has never endorsed or opposed nominees
for cabinet positions, the American Civil Liberties Union is not now
taking a position on whether John Ashcroft should be confirmed by the
Senate as Attorney General. What the ACLU does is analyze and disseminate
the positions of some cabinet nominees on important civil liberties issues
that face the nation, and to urge Congress to evaluate them in light of
the
grave responsibility of the office of Attorney General.

With that in mind, the ACLU Washington National Office today issued a new
report that has been distributed to all 100 U.S. Senators. The report
--"Not Moderate, Not Compassionate, Not Conservative: John  Ashcroft's
Radical Revisionism Of Basic Constitutional Values in America -- examines
the Ashcroft record on civil rights and liberties.

Given the intense spotlight on this issue, we thought you might find the
ACLU report of interest. You can read the ACLU news release and the report
(in PDF format) at:*

http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n011601a.html



For general information about the ACLU, write to info@aclu.org



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