in 1972, she cofounded the aclu's women's rights project.here, alongside pioneers like dorothy kenyon and pauli murray, she spent years carefully laying the groundwork to force u.s. law to acknowledge something radical. women are, like, full-on people. - nobody in our country did more for the advancement of women in terms of women's equality. - justice ruth bader ginsburg devoted her life to fight for equal justice. - she's an american icon. she was a huge glass ceiling breaker for all women. - i would like to show my granddaughters that the equal citizenship stature of men and women is a fundamental human right. - ruth argued six cases before the supreme court and won five of them, and that wasn't easy. at the time, the supreme court was all male. it was an era when the supreme court women's bathroom was still a second men's bathroom they used just for farting. so how did she convince these nine gentlemen to care about gender equality? she brought discrimination cases where the injured parties were men. it was a genius move. the legal equiv

and sat on the board of the aclu here and here i am pure common good as you seem to be. but there is a tension. how do we get the balance right. we do not want it to be a license for treading on liberty. where, what can we draw that line on and how do we know that it's the right line? >> guest: that is a great question, and i hope that there is a hopeful thread over the course of the 19th and into the 20th century on this point. we have a tradition of the courts reviewing public health decisions and insisting that they be rational, nondiscriminatory and proceed with the democratic authority of the legislature. that tradition is the way in which the judges oversee by no public health measures without letting the individual interfere with as you know well, the jacobson case, this is a case that still today stands with a preposition that the states can mandate the vaccinations in adult members of the american population. whether those adults want to be vaccinated or not. whether they have a medical reason for getting out of the vaccine or not. and that case which is written

major corporations and meet even the aclu are endorsing it.lked to the author of one book they absolutely do not want you to read. that's up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: here's something you probably never read a story about. at the same time, something has changed this country in the very basic way. in the last decade, there's been a huge spike in transgender identification among teenage girls. what's this about exactly? one author and a journalist called abigail shroyer wanted to know. she wrote a book about what may be causing the increase in identification. the response tells you everything. they stopped selling the book after a anonymous twitter user said it was trans public. we've heard reviewed the book. then a professor at uc berkeley called grace celebrated the decision. she wrote "i encourage followers to steal abigail shroyer's book and burn it on a pyre." that's a little much. but here's how the aclu wrote this period of stopping the circulation of the book and the ideas is 100% i will die on. after much public outcry target reversed the d

but here's how the aclu wrote this.he circulation of the book and these ideas is 100% a hill i will die on." after much public outcry target reversed the decision to ban the book. but this kind of censorship isn happening everywhere now, particularly on this topic. abigail shrier is the author of "irreversible damage: the transgender craze seducing our daughters." and we're happy to have her on tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me on. >> tucker: let me ask you a question, why do you think the censorship of your book has been so aggressive and so unapologetic out in the open? what is that? >> woke activists have taken the position that were never allowed to question anyone's transition, no matter their age, circumstance, or the incredible lack of adequate medical oversight. i fully support medical transition for mature adults. my book specifically looked at a sudden and alarming spike among teenage girls and i took a hard look at why. >> tucker: i want to ask you why, but why this topic? my sense is it

the aclu has sent home 13,000 unaccompanied mineors. that means they were kicked out before this could request asylum it was all done under the guise of a public health emergency the government said it helped stop the virus from spreading in detention center but the aclu hit back >>> the 737 max is back in business but not everybody's on board with the plan. >>> clear for take-off, the 737 max heads back to the air, but can airlines convince the public it's safe to fly again in. >> there has to be a national plan, strategy in order to combat what is coming down the road >> america's nursing homes are in trouble how we can protect our most vulnerable during the pandemic and beyond plus, what drove this man to jump on the roof of a bus with a flame thrower? >> the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith, back in 60 seconds >>> 617 days, that's how long the 737 max jets have been grounded glitches on those planes are responsible for multiple fatal crashes. boeing says changes in software, design and training have solved the problem.

jail run by the sheriff's department, it will not be until 2011 when i read a report issued by the acluof southern california that i fully understand what was done to my brother there. this is this Ãbbefore the attack on the world trade center and the pentagon, before the second goal for, the skill to torture people were honed in this nation on people who were not terrorists, they were victims of terrorism. you grieve, you learn, song lyrics in the book by alanis morrissette. in the fall 2011 weeks after monty's come home from state prison and days after he's back in my mother's house from the hospital stay, i'm in our college in on this site and going through my email when i noticed one from aclu of southern california. they have filed an 86 page complaint against the la county sheriff's sheriff's apartment for torture. 70 of the 86 pages are testimonies from survivors of those who are witnesses to torture. the report, which includes prisoners testimonies and that of jailhouse chaplains who could not be silent reveals the that under the watch of sheriff lee baca, torture in the la coun

child welfare experts ever take a child away, not border patrol who are not trained to do this. >> acluhat update. we appreciate it. >> unnext, current and former government officials raising a red flag about what a turbulent transition could mean. john brennan is live with me after the break. >>> back now to the presidential transition and some big news that is just coming into us, potentially, from the office of director of national intelligence. just in the commercial break basically, we've learned the odni says it's not cooperating with the biden transition until the election is certified, saying they're following the statutory provision which requires ascertainment by the add stater of gsa prior to supporting a potential presidential transition, going on to say they wouldn't have any contact with the transition team until notified by gsa. this is what the biden says they see as slow walking from trump officials to biden officials. it's affecting the potential for briefings and discussion with president-elect biden. let me bring in former cia director john brennan, an msnbc senior n

and so they want a way to accurately assess that program but according to the aclu it does have numbers on the number of rest -- arrests that have been made and there are a lot higher number of arrests with a certain segment of the student population. >> that will be important to place different sort of restorative justice. in order to ensure that particular students, especially students attend to be black or brown, are not essentially moving through that school to prison pipeline. >>> the meeting will start at 6:30. once again the board is expected to make one decision one way or another whether to keep the sro here in the fremont unified school district, or whether to make some adjustments. reporting live in fremont, kpix5. >>> here's a live look in san jose, dry for now, chief neurologist paul heggen is here with how soon our next rain could arrive. >> sooner than you would think just by looking outside, a nice mix of files and sunshine, temperatures were pleasant across the bay area today, but by this time tomorrow most of the bay area will either be about to get rain or already get

the naacp and the aclu sued the city saying the policy was discriminatory. opponents of the ban on non- residents was to protect sensitive habitat. >>> police had an unusual situation on their hands today. they responded to calls about an email wandering the streets. animal control officers were called out. they were able to capture it with a lasso and take it to an animal shelter. authorities are still trying to find the animals owners. if you are missing an emu call the police of the animal shelter. >>> if you are missing an emu, things i did not think i would here today. [ laughter ]>>> let's move on to the weather. it has been chilly out there. we have had rain. we also got a winter weather advisory happening in the sierra. that will carry on until 4:00 a.m. they will kick into a winter storm warning starting at four clock. be aware of that if you're going in that direction. a winter weather is revved up. we have a bit of rain tonight. you can see where that is falling and moving to the south. we have seen this in half moon bay and redwood city. i saw so

. >> reporter: but this morning the aclu demanding an independent investigation saying local law enforcement has, quote, consistently failed to provide information to the family. >> 13 days have gone by with no leads. 13 days have gone by with no answers. 13 days have gone by without an official cause of death given to this family. this family deserves. bobby is going to be laid to rest. >> your heart just goes out to his loved ones, and kawann's family was hoping to raise $15,000 for an independent autopsy but they ended up raising $100,000 in one day. >> incredible. >>> coming up, a new warning about packaged shipping delays this holiday season. >>> also ahead, the big news about the super bowl halftime show and how it will be different this year. ♪ here's to the duers. to all the people who realize they can du more with less asthma thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn't for sudden breathing problems. it can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. it's not a

others that say civil liberties matter more and with the civil libertarian and on the board of the aclu and as you seem to be so how do we get the balance right because to have a license how do we draw that line and how do we know? >> it's a great question and there is a hopeful bread of those american in court cases we have a tradition of courts reviewing public health decisions and insisting they be rational to take on discriminatory and with that legislature and a way they have overseen to prevent act epidemics without ever letting the likes of the rugged individual to interfere with will block the vital health measures and the jacobson case so this is the case extends from the proposition that states can mandate vaccinations and looking at those traditions? we certainly saw with the influenza pandemic with cities closing but can you imagine new york, los angeles, beijing, london would be absolutely locked down in relation to a pandemic? even with all of your experience with yellow fever and smallpox? did you think that would never happen? >> it took me by surprise and members of my

civil liberties matter more than the generalociety from the civilibertarian to be head of the british aclu and on the board here and now here i am are common goo as you seem to be but how do we get the balance right? where can we draw the line had we know it's the right line? >> i think there is a thread in court cases on just thi point to have a tradion of courts reviewing public health cisions and insisting baby rational and nondiscrimitory to proceed with e democratic authority of our legislature and that is the way that is overseen to prevent epidemics without ever readiness of those on - - the supported individual rights interfere with the block those measures and that come so strongly the jacobson case that standfor the proposition that seek to mandate the members of the american population to want to be vaccinated or not to have a medical reason or not? it's a gray juste on the supreme crt and that case announces our freedom depds the ability to move together and ptecturselves but it don't stop there and observes there might be some situations arbitrary will come to administer the v

counsel members made the change last night in hopes of settling a lawsuit from the naacp and aclu.or 55 years the park banned non-palo alto residents from visiting the preserve. now anyone will be able to visit as soon as mid-december. however, because of the pandemic you will have to make a reservation. >>> okay. two words, free food. we will tell you about the freebies and discounts you can get if you vote. that's next. >>> janellee, sometimes it is the free things in life. >> i love free thing. if you voted at krispy kreme you get a free glazed doughnut. even if you don't have your sticker that's okay because it is technically illegal to offer something in exchange for a vote. subway is offering discounts because this happens to be national sandwich day. >> we will be eating and drinking a lot. up next, we will send it over to lester holt who will lead our national coverage. we will be checking in twice an hour through the night with the local results. >> stay with nbcbayarea.com for complete coverage. test. test test. >>> tonight, a historic election night in america. the first

it took down ads for biden in michigan and aclu in colorado for mistaken information about voting.ave happened on both sides. i have fought for section 230 reform for 16 years. from my time as connecticut's attorney general when i took on the scourge of registered sex offenders luring children on facebook in my state with senator portman i have led passage of the only successful revision so far to section 230, the stop enabling section act. and chairman graham and i have authored the only bill to reform section 230 that has actually moved out of a committee. it passed this committee unanimously. change is going to come, no question. change is on the way, and i intend to bring aggressive and targeted reform to section 230. but i am not, nor should we be on this committee interested in being a member of the speech police. there are real harms and real victims here and in some ways this hearing is a betrayal of those real harm and the real victims of them. those harms have been caused by big tech because you have failed your responsibility, as have others in this industry. i want to s

if you switched the parties and it was republicans blocking the democrats you would have the aclu andhe naacp. >> laura: if the rules were reversed. 100% of a dump went for trump what would the democrats be saying? >> i don't have to answer this question. you know the answer. we will be in a whole different ballgame and the media would cover this much differently. serious questions need to be investigations about the operation of this election. >> laura: john roberts, it's at the u.s. supreme court it's a shock what he did in not taking that case. we want all elections to be fair. every legal vote counted. not ones that are illegitimate. thank you very much. what are the historical implications of this? newt gingrich tells us in a moment. - i didn't know why my body was moving on its own. it turns out i have tardive dyskinesia, a condition that may be related to important medications i take for my bipolar disorder. tardive dyskinesia can affect different parts of the body. it may also affect people who take medication for depression and schizophrenia. - [narrator] in today's trying ti

a civil libertarian because i was actually the head of the aclu and bid on the board here. now here i am the pure common gutter and collectivist. as you seem to be. there is attention here. how do we get the balance right. you don't want public health to be a license for treading on liberties. where can we draw the outline and how do we know that it is the right line? >> that is a great question. i think that there is a hopeful thread in american court cases into the 20th century on just this point. we have a tradition of courts reviewing public health decisions and insisting that they be rational. that they be nondiscriminatory. that they proceed with the democratic authority of the legislature. that tradition has been a way in which judges have overseen really vital public health measures to prevent epidemics and minimize the damage without ever letting the individual rights to interfere with or block really vital public health measures that support the freedom of all of us. that tradition is one that really comes out strongly. you know the jacobson case. this is a case t

a lawyer at the aclu cheered that decision. said the book should be burned.eanwhile in a story very few saw a major video game company erased retroactively someone from the picture as the soviets once did. what was her crime? she wrote a forum post that people thought was transphobic. ubisoft thought she should never work again, anywhere. her voice was too offensive. gin that is in the tv series, when she criticized mask mandates and preferred pronounce they decided she needed to be fired. where is this coming from? almost nobody likes it. almost no americaner supports it. corporations are behind it. all of it. the point is not to help anyone, much less you. let's be clear about that. >> the point is to establish control. they know they can dictate what you have the right to say about transrights or mask mandates. they can dictate what you can say about anything. that's unprecedented power. no one in this country has ever had that power. our constitution used to prevent it but they have it now. that power will come until handy when they're running the governm

. >> it is both and someone said, i talked to many democrats, members of the aclu and others and we all agree republicans were underrepresented and that was there a -- >> that is the republicans fault, you can't blame democrats for that. that's the republicans fault. hold on. you told our producers there was an issue with all poll workers told you to fill in your own ballot. what happened? >> one of the biggest issues we have is the use of a sharpy pen used at different polling places. on the democrats own website in arizona they actually say do not use red ink or permanent marker because this may result in a false read by the ballot machine so that comes from their own website. when we showed up to polling stations they only gave us sharpy markers. i specifically said i don't want to use a sharpy marker, do you have a regular pen, she said no, i only have a sharpy marker, use it, what it. through to the other side, she said don't worry about it, we've been doing it all day, not a big deal. we went ahead and use sharpy markers, you run into the machine at the end and what happens in ari

the aclu revealed the government could not find the parents of 545 children after separating them. >>orter: the government was given two months to do that. and they were not able to do that. >> it's a problem that they are trying to solve. >> we were literally going to -- we set up a 1-800 number, if you nobody somebody who has been sent back and separated from their child, call this number, and we may be able to help. >> reporter: in a interview with cbs news, chad wolf argued most of the parents made the decision to stay separated when given the choice. >> that's a really difficult position for a parent to be in. >> is it? it's not. >> reporter: do you have children. >> yeah, yeah, i have two. there's no way that i would leave them in another country unknowing, who, what kind of sponsor they will be put with. i would absolutely have them with me. >> reporter: in the dangerous country verse -- >> again, that's a misconception. right? you are assuming it's dangerous. >> reporter: guatemala? >> every part of the country is dangerous? every part? >> reporter: not every part. they were a

texas doing this to democrat vote observers we would have multiple lawsuits filed by the naacp, the acluall the awful votes would be filing lawsuits but we don't operate that way. in pennsylvania we had a thug a situation where a lot of voter intimidation of lawyers, lawyers have been threatened in pennsylvania in philadelphia by the city attorney for arrest if they're not pennsylvania license attorney, that is not the law anywhere in the country people have a civil right, they don't have to be a lawyer to be observed, as corey lewandowski mentioned observing from 30 feet away is meaningless and then impossible to compare signatures or jack to a mismatch, the fact that the ballots under the secretary of state rule can be counted even if they are not postmarked is p outrageous and also a violation of the united states constitution which gives only the legislature or congress the right toe, set those rules,y changing arbitrarily and having not endorsed by the pennsylvanit supreme court that is one of the things that we expect to go back to the court in that state, hopefully as we continue

if you switch the parties and it was republicans trying to block democrats you would have the aclu, theaacp - laura: if the roles were reversed and you had 23,000 votes, 100% of the dump went for trump, okay - what would the democrats be saying? >> i don't have the answer to this question. you know the answer. it would be a whole different ballgame. the media would be covering this much much differently. questions need to be investigated about the operation of this election. >> on roberts at the supreme court, it is a shock what he did in not taking that case to save this country from the integrity of the selection process. we want all elections to be fair, every legal vote counted, not ones that are illegitimate, legal votes. fantastic analysis. what are the historical implications, how does donald trump reshape the gop regardless of the outcome? newt gingrich tells us in a moment. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefull

despite the city police department prohibiting the practice, the aclu reporting it still being used.s angeles a new law will give at least 10% of the county's general funds to community programs like housing and mental health care. as an alternative to jail time. an opposition group fought the measure claiming it was a way to defund the police. akron, ohio, now mandating the public release of dashboard and body cam footage. civilian review boards, columbia ohio, seattle, portland creating their own citizen panels to oversee police involved incidents or investigating misconduct by officers. >> for a long time we had members and we did not have a lot of heavily militarized police officers in my community. >> citizens with no police backgrounds don't understand the stress and the difficulties of the job. and speak voters unfortunately were not informed of the actual policy and procedures that are in place. >> measures like the oversight boards will take time to phase in period of most of the legislative change the selection taking place in democratic run cities. of shannon. >> shannon:

rigorous thickers deafblind -- rigorous thinkers, frank was a progress if original, helped found the aclu, the new republic, comes the court and resists this effort to be living constitutionalists, invent rights even in a direction that would favor his world view. just read his decisions and anguished dissent in barnett. the flag salute case, and justice scalia mixes in ford administration, republican, conservative world view, tough on crime come inside and he's coming to opposite place because, again, following the law where it takes you. so, i think there's lot of overlap there i don't -- i don't have a sense of how much he relied on frank for opinions a lot, so that says a lot. he filled the same seat as justice jackson, a natural and rhenquist was in that seat before he became chief. so maybe affinity, justice jackson is such a lovely writer and of course justice scalia really cared but his writing. and jackson you would call more of an originalist, maybe not as disciplined as scalia. those would be the two key ones. everybody is going to like holmes for a few things and be pretty ske

the aclu of northern california tells the i-team it's monitoring the situation to make sure governmentnities of color. melanie woodro, abc 7 news. >>> coming up next here tonight, abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian has our seven-day forecast, which includes the thanksgiving holiday. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto is a heart failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart, there's no telling where life may take you. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. entrust y

we would have multiple bosses filed by the end aclu enough all of the alphabets would be filing lossesdon't operate that way. so in pennsylvania we had this situation there were a lot of vote but her intimidation. a lot of intimidation of lawyers, they been threatened in pennsylvania and into philadelphia specifically by the city attorney for arrest if they are not, licensed attorneys for that is nonsense and not the law anywhere in the country. there did not have to be a lawyer to go in and observe. observing from 30 feet away is meaningless. it's impossible to compare signatures or object to mismatched that way. but the ballots under the secretary of state rule can be counted even if they are not postmarked, is outrageous and also a violation of the united states constitution freighted he gives congress the right to set the time place and manner roles . so by changing that arbitrarily and endorsed by the pennsylvania supreme court, that is really one of the things we expect to go back to the courts on in that state. but hopefully as we continue counting there and continue being aggre

. >> both, and someone said in fact i talked to many democrats there, member of the aclu, we agreed,epublicans underrepresented. >> laura: that's the republicans fault, you can blame the democrats, that's the republicans phone. hold on a second. angela, you told us there was an issue how poll workers told you to fill in your own ballot? what happened there? >> here in arizona, one of the biggest issues we have right now is that use of a sharpie pen that was used at the different polling places. on the democrats own website here in arizona, they actually say do not use red ink or permanent marker because this may result in a false read by the ballot machines. that comes from their own website. when we showed up to polling stations, they only gave us sharpie markers. i specifically said i do not want to use a sharpie marker, do you have a regular pen? she said no i only have a sharpie marker, use it, you're going to be fine. what if it bleeds through to the other side, don't worry, it's not a big deal. we went ahead and used sharpie markers, you run it through the machine at the end an

the aclu says the lawyers are trying as they have been to locate the parents of 666 children. that's more than the 545 children that we reported on because that is what was disclosed in a court filing last month. we'll stay on this story. >> the u.s. supreme court takes up the most important casen on the term today on obama care. health care for millions of americans hangs in the balance. we have a preview next. (soft chimes) - [announcer] forget about vacuuming for up to a month. shark iq robot deep cleans and empties itself into a base you empty as little as once a month. and unlike standard robots that bounce around it cleans row by row. if it's not a shark, it's just a robot. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us, they can show us just how much they care. the first steps of checking in, the smallest moments can end up being everything. there's reso

it is so interesting that frankfurt it was very much a progressive liberal, helped found the aclu the republic. he comes on the court and resists this effort to be constitutionalism vent rights even an election that would favor his worldview. he read his anguished dissent in barney to get a sense for that. justice glia, nixon, ford administration, republican conservative worldview tough on crime comes in monies coming to opposite places because again following the law where it takes you. think there's a lot of overlap there. i don't have a sense of how much she relied on frankfurt opinions a lot. so that says a lot. he filled the same seat as justice jackson. quite a bit of affinity justice jackson is such a lovely writer. of course justice glia really cared about his writing. jackson yuko morgan originals maybe not quite as disciplined as glia. but if i were to guess those are probably be the two key ones. everyone is going to like homes for a few things and be pretty skeptical of some others. but that's probably the answer. >> as we sit here today justice amy coney barrett has just

and that has been that abuse by police officers of black and brown people but in the past decade, aclu lawyers have been battling in courts across america. >>to preserve the right to film police in public as it has been challenged in numerous lawsuits by police to stop people from recording. and this week, france, a u.s. ally and major world player has introduced a new bill that would ban any media published on line of police officers. if it came with the intent to cause them harm, offenders would face up to one year in prison and a 45,000 eur fine. this sparked an outcry from civil rights activists and reporters alike who fear that this will put press freedom at risk is going french interior minister downplayed any impact for journalists, he said are journalists going to be able to continue filming the answer is yes, but he going to be able to continue broadcasting. the answer is yes. >>or civilians going to be allowed to film a police intervention. the answer is yes, although happening on opposite hemisphere. the executive director of the ella baker center in oakland, says it's impor

target banned her book completely for time a lawyer at the aclu which of course used to defend civilties cheered that decision and said the book should be burned. meanwhile in a story very few saw, a major video game company, erased a voice actor named helen lewis from one of its titles retroactively. erased her from the picture as the soviets once did what was her crime wrote a forum post that many on the internet thought was transphobic. for that ubisoft thought she should never work again anywhere. even her voice was too offensive for the rest of us to hear. the mob then went to work trying to destroy gina an actress to play as character amanda lorian. when she criticized mask mandates and quote preferred pronounce they decided she needed to be fired. where is this coming from? almost nobody is unlikes it. almost no american supports it. corporations are behind it. all of it. and the point is not to help anyone much less you. let's be clear about that. the point is to establish control. they know that they can dictate what you have the right to say about trans rights or mask manda

those for prop 25 the bail bond industry is fighting it but opponents also includes some like the aclu of southern california who agree the current money bail system is flawed but who worry the tools used to replace it helped by algorithms pose a problem and could still lead tobias your algorithm might be kind of fun when you're looking to pick the next movie you want to watch and you get a suggestion but we're talking about someone's freedom. >>you know, there's a tremendous concern that these computer algorithms will let people out of jail who no business being out of jail. and we'll hold people in jail who have no business being held a yes vote on prop 25 means you want to replace cash bail with risk assessments. a no vote means you want to preserve the status quo proposition 20 voters are also being asked to decide on proposition 20 prop 20 is just intended to fix some of the unintended consequences of some prior laws top 20 is an effort to roll back common sense voter approved reforms this measure would allow certain theft crimes to be charged as felonies it would require dna coll

democrats and groups like the aclu, democrat henry cuellar, texas, represent a border district, theyould do cancel the border wall, useless destructive wall. border patrol, tom, correct me if i'm wrong, has been building barriers for 30 years, none of them have ever come down because little political will to undo what taxpayers pay for, is that true. >> that's correct. walls have been, barriers have been replaced when they become dilapidated and come down. this wall system, new wall system, is a great wall system. it is deep in the ground. it has smart technology. it is anti-dig technology, anti-climb technology. barriers are meant to slow people down, not stop everybody. it gives border patrol to stop people and arrest them this is something the border patrol wanted for decade this is the wall they picked out. they had different models of wall. they tested various prototypes. nine of them. i went and saw them myself. they built the best wall that is designed for them. elizabeth: biden says he will cease construction of the border wall but we're looking at his voting history and it l

and that has been that abuse by police officers of black and brown people but in the past decade, aclu lawyers have been battling in courts across america. >>to preserve the right to film police in public as it has been challenged in numerous lawsuits by police to stop people from recording. and this week, france, a u.s. ally and major world player has introduced a new bill that would ban any media published on line of police officers. if it came with the intent to cause them harm, offenders would face up to one year in prison and a 45,000 eur fine. this sparked an outcry from civil rights activists and reporters alike who fear that this will put press freedom at risk is going french interior minister downplayed any impact for journalists, he said are journalists going to be able to continue filming the answer is yes, but he going to be able to continue broadcasting. the answer is yes. >>or civilians going to be allowed to film a police intervention. the answer is yes, although happening on opposite hemisphere. the executive director of the ella baker center in oakland, says it's impor

the new york solicitor general and the aclu argued the senses should include everyone because that's what the constitution requires our laws reflect a deliberate choice not to base apportionment on citizenship voter eligibility or any other legal status, but instead to help the number of people living in the state distances is supposed to send the data to president trump by december 31st in washington alexandra le mon. >>and san francisco has officially launched its a first a street crisis response team the team will respond to mental health or addiction related 911 calls in the tenderloin area. mayor london breed says the new pilot program will reduce law enforcement responses to non violent activity and let them focus on public safety. the team includes a behavioral health clinician peer specialist and a medical professional. the fire department is also a partner in this team, san francisco supervisor matt haney says the goal is to provide an appropriate effective coordinated non law enforcement evidence-based trained response to behavioral health emergencies. let's talk about our

we learned roughly a month ago from reporting from our own jacob soboroff from a filing from the acluat there were 534 children who were still separated from their parents, that this administration could not find them. joe biden has said that he's going to on day one create a task force to go find those parents. if you were advising him how would you advise him to do so? >> absolutely. number one, you know, we need to reunite those parents with their children. but more than that we need to find the 187 children that are lost. we have no idea where they are or who they are with. what i would say to the president is number one let's look to the northern triangle countries, and let's bring back the plan that we had set forward during the last two years of the obama administration. the people in the northern triangle are ready and willing and want to work with the u.s., but they need to have the political support, the political will from us in order to ensure that they are able to take back their governments and democracy. we need to work to ensure that in these little tiny towns of guate

our ensuing lawsuit by the aclu, southern poverty law center, successfully challenged th in the lower. but unfortunately, the state insisted on fighting back. they apparently want to force american citizens to choose between being able to put food on their table or voting. and that is totally contrary to what democracy is all about. so rather than sit back and wallow in the sorrow and complain about the state, we decided we're going to approach this the way we have always approached things. and that is when we see obstacles, we tournament opportunities. we organized the entire united states where over 90,000 individuals across the state and corporations and celebrities and athletes and sports teams donated over $27 million to our fines and fees fund. we were able to pay off the fines and fees of over 40,000 returning citizens. we know since the passage of amendment 4, we were able to register -- in the face of this pandemic and all of the obstacles and uncertainty about registration, we were still able to register over 87,000 returning citizens since the passage of amendment 4. 1.4 mi

in immigration news, the aclu has filed a lawsuit to obtain information about the federal response tothe pandemic in immigration jails, including measures taken to protect prisoners and whether people were deported after testing positive. data analyzed by the associated press shows covid-19 cases are surging in nursing facilities in states hardest hit by the coronavirus. new weekly cases increased almost four-fold from late may to late october and resident deaths more than doubled. pfizer says early data from large clinical trial shows a coronavirus vaccine cut symptomatic, 19 cases by more volunteers who received the vaccine instead of a placebo. it is a promising sign that scores of vaccines currently under development will prove effective at battling the pandemic. as reported global coronavirus cases top 50 million, the united nations is warning parts of yemen, burkina faso, nigeria, and south sudan are all at risk of falling into famine within the coming months as the pandemic has exacerbated already dire food insecurity due to conflict, mass displacement, economic, imate and agri

doing this to democrat vote observers, we would have multiple lawsuits filed by the naacp, by the acluing lawsuits, but we don't operate that way. so in pennsylvania we've had this thuggish situation there, a lot of voter intimidation, a lot of intimidation of lawyers, lawyers have been threatened in pennsylvania and in philadelphia specifically by the city attorney for arrest if they are not pennsylvania-licensed attorneys. that is nonsense. that is not the law anymore in the country, and people have a civil right. they don't have to be a lawyer to go in and observe. as corey lewandowski mentioned, observing from 30 feet away is meaningless, it's impossible to object to a mismatch that way. the fact that the ballots under the secretary of state's rules can be counted even if they are not postmarked is both outrageous and also in violation of the united states constitution which gives only the legislature or congress the right to set those time, place and man or rules. so so by changing that arbitrarily and having that endorsed by the pennsylvania supreme court, that is really one of t

it's so interesting that frankfurter was very much a progressive liberal, you know, helped found the aclu, the new republic. he comes on the court and resists this effort to be a living constitutionalist, even in a direction that would favor his world view. just read his anguished dissent in barnett to get a sense for that. and is justice scalia, you know, nixon, ford administration, republican, conservative world view, tough on crime, comes in and he's coming to opposite places because, again, following the law where it takes you. so i think there's a lot of overhappen there. i don't have a sense of how much -- overlap there. he lied on frankfurter opinions a lot, so that says a lot. you know, he filled the same seat as justice jackson. so, and rehnquist was in that seat before he became chief. there was quite a bit of affinity. justice jackson's such a lovely writer, and, of course, justice scalia really cared about his writing. and, you know, jackson you would call more of an originalist. maybe not quite as disciplined as scalia. but, you know, if i were to guess, those would probably

those for prop 25 the bail bond industry is fighting it but opponents also includes some like the aclu of southern california who agree the current money bail system is flawed but who worry the tools used to replace it helped by algorithms pose a problem and could still lead tobias your algorithm might be kind of fun when you're looking to pick the next movie you want to watch and you get a suggestion but we're talking about someone's freedom. >>you know, there's a tremendous concern that these computer algorithms will let people out of jail who have no business being out of jail. and we'll hold people in jail who have no business being held a yes vote on prop, 25 means you want to replace cash bail with risk assessments. a no vote means you want to preserve the status quo proposition 20 voters are also being asked to decide on proposition 20 prop 20 is just intended to fix some of the unintended consequences of some prior laws top 20 is an effort to roll back common sense voter approved reforms this measure would allow certain theft crimes to be charged as felonies it would require dn

community organizing outside of the legislature, but about three years ago i started working with the aclu was able to do that direct policy advocacy to see how bills were written and what that really looks like and the lobbying process and everything. and i saw that oklahomans really got middle-of-the-road solutions to things we deal with every day, and that happened because we didn't have someone with our shared lived experiences running representing us. i started looking for people to run and the, folks, started asking me when i was going to run and why i hadn't run yet, so i decided to answer the call to action. i think community action is answering a call to action. house district 88 started asking me to run, so i answered that call and i decided to listen to the advice i'm giving everybody else why it's important to see ourselves in the systems that make decisions about our everyday lives. >> mauree, i want to give you some numbers. almost 600 lgbtq candidates appeared on the november ballot this year. do you think your victory and those numbers that i just mentioned are going to ins

the issueng back to of felony voting rights, the aclu with a map that shows it easier to read their, the states in red that all people with felony convictions are permanently disenfranchised, states in orange, people with felony convictions can vote upon the completion of their sentence. the blue states there on that map. recent ash people in prison cannot vote but everyone else can vote after they are out of prison. all available at aclu.org. issue of reform when it comes to prisons and felony voting rights i wonder your back,ts on the first step -- first step act, an act that the trump administration touts. larry: not familiar with the details. if we are going to talk about prison as a way for individuals to get a new outlook, how can you possibly talk about that without citizenship being at the core? i think that is obviously a first step. i don't really know the details of that legislation. host: ottawa, iowa, randy, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. larry, i am a member of bernie's group. , and i havefor him known who he is and what he stands for for ove

the aclu of georgia has volunteers across the state of georgia doing the same thing. look outside, there are a number of volunteers out here that i've spoken with, talking to voters as they come in and out and making sure the experience is smooth. i want to introduce you to wesley. you came in, you brought your young daughter to vote as well. but you said that those reports of possible intimidation, or people coming out here to possibly confront voters, that was on your mind when you came out here? >> yeah. it surely was. i had to make sure i paid attention to the cars as i was pulling in because i have my baby girl with me. you know? you hear the reports of the crazy people, so just a precaution for me. >> and i will say everything went smoothly for you? >> yes. >> nothing to be concerned about? >> nothing to be concerned about. we were in and out in five minutes. >> and you cast your first ballot for barack obama in '08. in june you waited about two and a half hours? >> yes. due to the coronavirus pandemic, i think it was -- it was a lot of chaos around here. it too