David Cole

@DavidColeACLU

National Legal Director, ACLU; Professor at Georgetown Law; regular contributor to NY Review of Books; author of Engines of Liberty. Views expressed are my own.

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    30 Sep 2017

    Engines of Liberty – Out now in paperback! Revised to address how we can resist Trump -- and why we will succeed

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Thanks Jane. Moyn has been making this argument for years, and it hasn't gotten any more persuasive. See my refutation in a debate we did in Dissent in 2015.

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    18 hours ago

    "the vaccines are safe & EFFECTIVE" "more than 39 million people have been infected w/Covid-19" Just for starters, would explain why these 39 million, who have natural immunity (like ) are any great threat to the vaccinated?

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    Sep 5

    5/ Good piece by & Daniel Mach in on vaccine mandates. Yes, mandates intrude on your autonomy & bodily integrity—but it’s justifiable, since your rights “do not include the right to inflict harm on others.”

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  5. Sep 5

    3/3 And let's suppose for a minute that allowing torture to continue would contribute to ending the war. Are lawyers supposed to look the other way, to sacrifice their clients in the quixotic hope that allowing them to be tortured will accelerate the end of the war?

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  6. Sep 5

    2/3 And why would anyone think that had torture continued, the war on terror would have come to a halt? That's Moyn's premise, for which he offers not a scintilla of evidence. To say it's deeply implausible is an understatement.

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  7. Sep 5

    1/3 A deeply unfair attack on Michael Ratner by . Moyn seems to thinks opposing war and opposing torture in war are at odds. Ratner is in fact Exhibit A that they are not. He opposed both to the end. via

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    Sep 5

    “The real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates….They trample the freedom of the most vulnerable to participate in society…”

    In today's NYT Sunday Review, Dan Mach and I make the civil liberties case FOR vaccine mandates.
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  9. Sep 5

    Sunset over Lake Champlain.

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  10. Sep 5

    In today's NYT Sunday Review, Dan Mach and I make the civil liberties case FOR vaccine mandates.

    “At the A.C.L.U., we are not shy about defending civil liberties, even when they are very unpopular,” and Daniel Mach write. “But we see no civil liberties problem with requiring Covid-19 vaccines in most circumstances.”
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  11. Sep 4

    As I have argued, the shadow docket seems to facilitate the very partisan alignments that the Court has thus far generally avoided in cases that are fully briefed and argued, and that require opinions explaining results. This may be most powerful reason to curtail this practice.

    During its current Term (which ends on 10/3), has handed down 68 orders (on its "shadow docket") from which at least one Justice publicly dissented. In *none* of those dissents has a Justice to the right of the Chief Justice joined a Justice to his left. That's stunning.
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    Sep 3

    NEW: are suing Texas over its shameful new law, which limits voting access for voters of color and those with disabilities. w/ & . via

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    Sep 4

    “At the A.C.L.U., we are not shy about defending civil liberties, even when they are very unpopular,” and Daniel Mach write. “But we see no civil liberties problem with requiring Covid-19 vaccines in most circumstances.”

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    Sep 3

    For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I read/re-read 21 books about the run-up to the attacks, the day itself, and the wars that followed, from 2002 to a few published last month. I tried to understand what America’s response revealed about us. Here it is: (1)

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    Sep 3

    BREAKING: We’re suing to halt Iowa’s ban on mask mandates in schools. This ban is discriminatory, and requires students with disabilities to risk their health in order to get an education. It must be stopped.

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    Sep 3

    BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit in federal court against Texas’ SB1, a radical new voter suppression law. It’s an unconstitutional, anti-democratic attack on the voting rights of Texans — and the organizations that represent, assist, and support Texas voters.

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  17. Sep 3

    The Civil Liberties Case FOR Vaccine Mandates.

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    Sep 3

    .⁦⁩ & Daniel Mach: “We care deeply about civil liberties and civil rights for all — which is precisely why we support vaccine mandates.”

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    The real threat to civil liberties stems not from vaccine mandates, but from those states that have banned vaccine and mask mandates in the name of "freedom." Dan Mach and I explain why here.

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    Sep 3

    BREAKING NEWS: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing examining the Texas abortion ban and the Supreme Court’s abuse of its “shadow-docket."

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    Sep 2

    in the today breaks down perfectly why vaccinations are not a violation of our civil liberties.

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