--- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:52:17 -0500 From: "Eric M. Freedman" <lawemf@private> Subject: Word to Wise January 30, 2004 Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:18 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that people concerned about losing freedom to government anti-terrorism efforts should speak out. The Supreme Court is taking up several terror-related cases this spring, including challenges to the government detention of terror suspects without legal rights. Ginsburg, speaking to a group of women's rights lawyers, was asked if people's rights were in danger. ``On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to overweigh the other,'' she said. That would change, Ginsburg said, ``if people come forward and say we are proud to live in the USA, a land that has been more free, and we want to keep it that way.'' Ginsburg, who argued women's rights cases at the Supreme Court several decades before former President Clinton named her to the court in 1993, said ``an active public'' made the difference in the victories of feminism. ... _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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