and a little later in the bulletin will be speaking to the american civil liberties union. e the first central american country to legalise same—sex marriage. a female couple tied the knot in a ceremony that was broadcast on national tv. costa rica's president, carlos alvarado, said the new law meant the country now recognised the rights that gay and lesbian people have always deserved. and in a moment we'll be speaking to the president — but first, rich preston has this report. just after midnight, in a town near the capital, san jose, alexandria and dona were married, costa rica's first same—sex marriage. that first televised ceremony came after three hours of special programming dedicated to celebrating marriage equality. translation: the approval of same—sex marriage in costa rica is perfect. it's something that families need, we especially need that protection for the rights of our children. translation: we are a recognised family under the law from now on. with the law changed, couples made their vows a cross changed, couples made their vows across the country on tuesd

madam speaker, the protection of civil liberties has always een a uniquely american value. i oppose the original patriot act and subsequent re-authorizations, because i believe they cross the line and compromised americans' fundamental right to privacy. we can prevent crime and terrorism without our government collecting data on law-abiding citizens. i've said that whether there's been a republican president or a democratic president in the white house. this has not been a partisan notion either. there are members on both sides of the aisle who have consistently said the same. when i work with my colleagues, mark pocan and tom massie, to introduce what was called the strongest anti-surveillance bill to date, it was done with bipartisan support. it's no surprise then that i don't support the underlying bill either. every day we ask americans to choose between their right to privacy and a false sense of security. that's not a choice we should have to make. having said that, other members in this chamber, democrats and republicans, feel differently. and it is the rules committ

racism and human rights violations would team up with the nation's largest civil liberties advocacy organization the american civil liberties union a.c.l.u. with the support of the paternal order of police as. calling on chicago mayor louis likely to end the city wide checkpoints put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic chicago police set up checkpoints across the city to enforce state wide state home orders officers stationed in multiple districts would stop drivers and hand out flyers to people reminding them to not make a necessary trips outside of their homes according to the chicago tribune though this public health p.s.a. in action was well intentioned it didn't take long before community and civil rights groups surrounded and sounded the alarm while c.p.d. spokespeople argue that the increased police presence is part of a public health agenda civil rights groups say checkpoints put black and brown people at risk for increased exposure to cope with 19 right now in chicago 70 percent of the birth of the virus are black according to american civil liberties spokesperson during this pandemic law enfor

americans want their privacy protected. for far too long the patriot act and the foreign intelligence surveillance act, referred to as fisa, have been used to trample the civil liberties of american citizens. for montanans, the right to privacy is so fundamental it is enshrined in our own constitution. in fact, very few states have such protections, but the drafters of the montana constitution recognized that privacy was essential to exercise all of the of the freedoms that we hold so dear. the bill the u.s. house does have some good reforms. it has some provisions in it, including a provision from my bipartisan bill with my colleague from oregon, senator wyden, called the safeguarding americans private records act, which would revoke the now terminated call detail program which secretly collected data on our cell phones, our land lines, as well as private conversations. but the house bill fails to enact real reforms to fisa that will actually protect a the privacy of the american people. and we saw what a handful of scornful governmentsc bureaucras did to president trump when they abused fisa to serve their political motives. our own government spy on an american cit

the american civil liberties union picked up that case and carried it to the supreme court. the supreme court ruled that it was unconstitutional for women not to receive the same benefits as men and the women who took that case forward to the supreme court was ruth ginsburg as a young lawyer. we are proud to know we are part of her story as well. that the not just affect military women, but women across the united states. >> asking the court to declare sex -- amicus urges a position dated in 1837 by -- noted abolitionist an advocate of equal rights for men and women. she spoke, not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity. she said, i ask no favor for my sex. i ask of my brethren is that they take -- >> we had other things for the pregnancy issues. that fell away. women sued because they were put out of the military. they had long success successful careers and ended up having to get out of the military. there were a lot of things going on at that time. at the same time, american public was -- they had to look at what they were going to do to bring more people in and again,

were improvements to national security from provisions they said were improvements to the civil liberties of american citizens and suddenly all oppose it. what changed, other than the president's tweet? what changed other than the president's tweet? i urge my colleagues to support this motion and send the bill to conference where we can do the job we were sent here to do. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: madam speaker, everything has change. the main change is it's worse than we thought. on march 10 when this body last dealt with fisa administration all kinds of things have changed. we've learned from this the declassified transcript house bad the situation was in the prior administration when they went after the trump campaign. we learned about the concerted effort to frame general flynn, a three-star general, 30 years serving our country and everything -- we learned about october 4 when the f.b.i. agents said we should no longer pursue going after general flynn. but what happened, jim comey told pet

. >> a sentiment echoed by the american civil liberties union, which tweeted quote, much as he might wish otherwise, donald trump is not the president of twitter, unquote. the facebook ceo mark zuckerberg asked about trump's intentions today on cnbc says social media sites should largely be left alone. >> i don't think that facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth. >> the electronic frontier foundation also weighed in today. the lawyers who defend civil liberties in the digital world say they don't think the executive order will move forward, because they say, it violates the first amendment. in san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> a drive-through graduation ceremony in san jose, managed to create a little pomp under an odd circumstance. >> 2020 grads and their families piled into decked out cars on campus and drove up to an impromptu stage, one by one, the seniors referred their diplomas, to the raucous honking of car horns of the students were mostly maskless while the cameras snapped away but the administrators wore masks using hand sanitizer

this legislation increases the power of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board to pursue its mission to protect americans' privacy. after 9/11, as congress considered the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004, establishing the privacy and civil liberties board, that was one of my top priorities all those years ago. and the board has done critical work in assessing the privacy and civil liberties, impact the government collection activities, including under various provisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. so, again, this has to be a high priority for us. it was a higher priority in the act that was passed that could get passed in the senate. so again, i'm going to sub might my statement for the record -- submit my statement for the record that i talk about here. but fisa is a critical pillar of america's national security which congress has updated and improved over the last years to ensure that americans' privacies and civil liberties are respected. are we ever satisfied? of course not. of course not. but legislation is just exactly that. legislation. our attempt to com

banker and now in that media so i've done all the bad things but i was also a member of the american civil liberties union and numerous other charitable groups which dealt with issues involving i immigrants looking for to having you in today's discussion and how the rest of our. i am isabel est i'm an editor with quartz news here in hong kong is a bear and i cover the whole region but specifically hong kong for the time being i look. isabella and wilson are both based in hong kong i know is in beijing wilson out on the streets out and about today through the weekend up to me what is it been like what's been happening on the streets. well he's missing a lot of protests out on the streets and a lot of these are just ordinary people so 'd we've seen a lot of school children out we've seen a lot of elderly people we've seen in the above professionals out on the street and that's been met by a pretty harsh police response so just today we have over 650 arrests we saw schoolchildren being rounded up into police vans and saw a lot 'd of people being pepper sprayed 'd and similar thing happened over the wee

and the american civil liberties union picked up that case, and carried it to the supreme court. the supreme court ruled that it was unconstitutional for women not to receive the same benefits as men, and the woman who took that case forward to the supreme court was ruth bader ginsberg as a young lawyer. so we're very proud to know that we're part of her story as well. but that didn't just affect military women. it affected women across the united states. >> in asking the court to declare a suspect criterion, amicus urges a position, forcibly stated in 1837 by sarah grimke noted abolitionists advocate of equal rights for men and women. she spoke not eloquently but with unmistakable authority. she said, i ask no favor for my sex. all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. >> we had other things for the pregnancy issues. that fell away. women sued because they were put out of the military who had long careers, successful careers, and ended up having to get out of the military. so there were a lot of things going on at that time, and in the same time, the

surveilling beaches and parks keeping an eye out for social distancing organizations like the american civil liberties union have fought back against surveillance not everyone is concerned about privacy in fact the italian government is in the process of hiring those without a job as civic assistants monitoring people to see if they're social distancing properly reporting for the news with rick sanchez natasha sweet r t it has a huge we when it comes to space travel as rival corporations try to get their names in the history books one fail. you're by the way already chalked up by richard branson's virgin orbit meanwhile in space x. their next on the roster the billionaire is hoping that they're going old school and teaming up with the national space agency will not only bring success but also signal of new dawn 1st place travel what's really going on in this field here's our teens alex my love it. space travel used to be a thing of national pride but now much of the endeavor to boldly go where no man has gone before has turned corporate and according to some people are losing interest here's politicki

there is no law that would allow for any domestic organization to be labeled a terrorist the american civil liberties union has already responded sharply to president trump's statement pointing out that it would be an abrogation of any 1st amendment right should the trump administration continue to explore this the attorney general bill barr held a news conference to try and walk back to president come statement making clear that it is not being designated a terrorist organization however it will be among those organizations investigated by the joint terrorism task force so that's a very different thing under way but the trumpet ministration holding these left wing alliance is responsible for the violence despite claims from others like the mayor of minneapolis who's in insists that white white supremacists are forming part of the crowds have meant particular violence so a very confused philosophical message coming out from the administration saying that it is going to investigate an organization that is not really an organization of if i can just explain that very quickly one expert comp. birdwatchi

or the american civil liberties. union has issued a statement to regard to that saying that the words of the president are hypocritical of moral illegal gross disregard for racial terror and with respect to sending in the national guard we call in the national guard and law enforcement to comply with the law and not president trump but a t.v. crew reporting on the protests in minneapolis was arrested live on camera have a look at this do you know why i am under arrest for why and why am i under arrest about is c.n.n. reporter my human is who was showing demonstrators being detained live on t.v. and he along with the production team within a school to the way by police despite offering to move to a different location he has since been released and he spoke to the network about his experience. it did cross my mind that what is really happening here and the one thing that gave me a little bit of comfort was that it happened on live t.v. there's been this you know when you talk within the community about let's just say w

infected people as more states and tech giants are working on their contact tracing apps the american civil liberties union releases guidelines to help guard against government overreach say good design features are not enough if this technology is implemented the wrong way the missing giuliani senior legislative counsel for the a.c.l.u. says since the majority of individuals don't trust officials they're not willing to provide information that's necessary to do real contact tracing she says without voluntary in the system will benefit the public's health you i think go down a very dangerous road where the idea of people being able to retain their privacy even during those times and begins to evaporate and i think that's a dangerous us. giuliani says a broader strategy needs to be targeted at the older population without requiring the need to have a smartphone you know nearly half of individuals over age 65 don't have a smartphone and roughly 30 percent individuals who make less than $30000.00 a year don't have a smartphone depending on the apps me use i'm just going to need that many or most high ri

and costs judge will also granted a permanent injunction to civil rights groups like the american civil liberties union or a.c.l.u. that challenge the law as discriminatory the state is expected to appeal for several decades florida felons were barred from voting that is until voters here passed a measure known as amendment for restoring the voting rights of felons who have completed their sentences for crimes other than murder or sex crimes but then last june republican lawmakers in the state led by governor rhonda santas passed a law requiring felons to pay back all their fines fees and restitution as part of their sentence before being allowed to vote again florida's supreme court upheld the law but the federal court intervene with an injunction ruling in favor of $17.00 former felons who sued the state of the. the judge panel of the 11th u.s. circuit court of appeals upheld the injunction back in february judge ruling sunday is basically built upon the previous circuit court of appeals decision but because of the timing and a likely appeal by the state it's unlikely that people affected by th

surveilling beaches and parks keeping an eye out for social distancing organizations like the american civil liberties union have fought back against surveillance not everyone is concerned about privacy in fact the italian government is in the process of hiring those without a job as civic assistants monitoring people to see if their social distancing properly reporting for the news with rick sanchez natasha sweet r t r let's go to bench one now and talk about this a little bit look i get it. i understand that when we go to work there are probably going to have to be protocols put in place to make sure people are walking in with a favor if you got a favor you could have covered my day and you could infect the entire office got that but how far how much do we have to think about this surveillance state that we're now giving our employers and our government permission to create around us well i think that's a great question and remember too that this is not just a government created surveillance state this is a big tech private enterprise surveillance state being outsourced to the government so you have

or the american civil liberties. union has issued a statement to regard to that saying that the words of the president are hypocritical of moral illegal gross disregard for racial terror and with respect to sending in the national guard we call in the national guard and law enforcement to comply with the law and not president trump. and washington post investigation shows that black people in the united states more than twice as likely to be killed by police as white people told ford's death is just the latest incident this year in march brianna taylor was shot 8 times by police as she lay in bed plainclothes officers entered her kentucky home in the middle of the night without warning this month a sudanese american man yassin mohammed was shot dead in georgia after several encounters with police can say he may have been suffering from mental health problems also in georgia police are accused of delaying the investigation into the killing of dzhokhar because one of the suspects has links to law enforcement well earli

law the american civil liberties union has already responded very sharply to president saying that even doing so or attempting to do so would be an abrogation of the 1st amendment so certainly president trump maybe not that clear about the law of the country making a tweet like that his attorney general bill barr subsequently tried to walk it back a bit saying that there would be among the organizations that are investigated by the joint terrorism task force making clear that there is no intention of declaring the organization a terrorist one but here is another issue it is not really an organization one expert pointed out that birdwatching an anteater can be compared to our organizations that are bird watchers and organizations that fall under the umbrella but neither bird watching nor. is an organization so the many problems involved here and not least the assumption that auntie for all those allied to it are behind the violence that we've seen the mayor of minneapolis for example is insistent that it's right wing white supremacists who are infiltrating the crowds and causing violence

essentially to embarrass the president in an election year now we should point out that the american civil liberties union has just weighed in on this controversy in the last few moments putting out a statement calling the words of the president hypocritical immoral and illegal a gross disregard for racial terror they also responded in their statement to his call for sending in the national guard to quash this violence saying that this sensually the law enforcement in minneapolis and in that state. if minnesota should ignore the president we call the national guard and law enforcement to comply with the law and not president trump pretty astounding to see these statements in writing not just from the president but also the response from one of the most powerful sort of groups that advocates for those that feel that they have been disenfranchised who have been hurt by racial violence now speaking out so strongly indeed can we help that there are white house correspondent thank you very much kimberly. a t.v. crew who were reporting on those minneapolis protests was arrested live on camera take a look

this legislation increases the power of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board to pursue its mission to protect americans' privacy. after 9/11, as congress considered the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004, establishing the privacy and civil liberties board, that was one of my top priorities all those years ago. and the board has done critical work in assessing the privacy and civil liberties, impact the government collection activities, including under various provisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. so, again, this has to be a high priority for us. it was a higher priority in the act that was passed that could get passed in the senate. so again, i'm going to sub might my statement for the record -- submit my statement for the record that i talk about here. but fisa is a critical pillar of america's national security which congress has updated and improved over the last years to ensure that americans' privacies and civil liberties are respected. are we ever satisfied? of course not. of course not. but legislation is just exactly that. legislation. our attempt to com

we're looking at the american civil liberties union, the aclu, suing the state of california toe releasearly from prison, 500 inmates from jail in orange county. there is a concern that covid-19 is spreading through prisons. washington state was sued by an activist group though they wanted two thirds of prison population released in washington state. california released seven sex offenders in orange county, they are high risk, will reoffend. guess what, one of the sex offenders was rearrested for exposing himself in public. americans are out of a job, they want to work, they see this going on. your reaction. >> i understand people are clearly frustrated, we have concerns about the guards, staff, families of guards and staffs in prisons. there are concerns there. you should not release sex offenders or violent criminals. if you have a mayor went to prison for nine years, maybe the mayor gets out early. if you have person committing section crimes that's a different story. we have don't have to just think about the inmates but the guards. i say that. i have a facility in my state, a lot of

now the american civil liberties union, well, it seems only to defend illegal immigrants and abortion rights or persons perhaps, but these things that we have been deprived of these last few months we don't hear from the aclu. number three, teaching the constitution is essential. how many today really know what it says, what it means? why it even matters and why does declaration matter? these documents ultimately protect us from a government drunk on its own power. one that ends up subjugating its own people for their own bottom line or their own status or their own good. number four, a prosperous economy is essential. that means not just for the elites at the top, but for the middle class and entry-level workers as well. >> we are not getting paid. >> to pay my bills. >> my wife is a small business owner as well. we actually had to close the doors there so that crippled us. >> laura: democrats answer a socialism peer that will only bring misery. we have seen out across the globe over the decades in the last century we have seen it. a growing economy means a healthy america across the

. >> laura: yet, we're still waiting for that kick in of the american civil liberties union, what haspened to them, where are they? >> there are no longer a civil liberties union. the organization to defend the marching in skokie is dead. they now believe in a technocratic state. this is getting far afield but i think the french revolution is attacking the american revolution. >> laura: their back. we got to roll but i loved your piece, come back soon -- great to see you. it's hard to see americans embracing a new normal -- i hate that phrase -- that includes contact tracing, especially given all the legal concerns. here to discuss is john eastman. there are a lot of practical problems with contact tracing, people don't answer their phone, people are suspicious of this i think for good reason, but what are the constitutional hurdles for such a pervasive of contact tracing? >> you mean we can't send people out and say we will contact tracy if you don't answer your phone? let me go back -- i think there's a silver lininge here. the government has been tracking us more than any of us car

he became the founder of the moving spirit for decades of the american civil liberties unit. kate richards o'hare that i mentioned earlier. once she got out of prison, she led a cross country march demanding release of other political prisoners and they picketed the white house for two months with the support of the aclu and she was finally successful. in 1921, lauren hearting became president and under pressed pressure and those demonstrations, he finally let all the remaining prisoners out of jail. he even invited eugene dips to visit him on the way home from prison. here is deb's leaving office after that visit. he ran for president five times, but it was the first time he had actually gotten to the white house. what can we conclude about this era? i think it was a time when american democracy came very close to losing its soul. it is also a time that reminds us of the dark currents of xenophobic, nativism, scapegoats that had long run low below the surface of the country. i think it is a good time to remember words that emma goldman said in court in 1917 just before she w

we've been wanting to reform it to make sure it doesn't abuse american civil liberties, but they're caughtsaying, oh, we don't want president trump to know this, but we've got to figure out how to put forward a bill that pretends to fix the problem. this is a parlor game in washington. there are some good reforms. i voted for senator lee's reform today, i think it's a good reform, but none of it really prevents this from happening again. what happened to carter page could still happen even when this bill passes, and i think that's a travesty. lou: and the chief justice of the united states presiding over those fisa courts has been quiet and passive and, in my judgment, irresponsible giving his responsibility for the, for those courts. it would be nice the hear from him supporting senator rand paul, supporting reform. it would be with nice the see some courage just in a few more pockets that extend beyond far too few representatives of the american people including you, senator paul. thank you for doing -- >> and this is -- lou: -- great work. >> yeah. well, it's a good point. you know, dea

that's a protection of american civil liberties. y makers want to identify the americans, they have to ask, who is that person? they have to have them unmasked. that's how the system is supposed to work. that's how it worked. and the idea that there is anything improper that went on here is a fox news, president trump fantasy. but nothing -- but it's just not true. >> is there any immunity that exists by being a member of a presidential campaign or presidential transition or for that matter, presidential administration in terms of your name being unmasked in a request? >> not at all. in fact, you would want more disclosure about people who are important and have high-level access. if someone who is involved in a major way in a presidential campaign, in a presidential administration is involved in something that is potentially improper, you would certainly want their name disclosed. because you'd want to stop it. the idea that, as you suggest, there's some sort of immunity for a high-level person, the opposite is true. >> jeffrey, sta

already he's getting some pushback on that from groups like the national civil -- the american civil liberties union. i imagine there will be some opposition from congress as well. chris: well, i've done some research on it today. a bunch of lawyers have different opinions, but most credible lawyers say the president and the united states has no right to designate any domestic group as a terrorist organization, that the state department can designate a foreign group, al qaeda, isis, as a ter organization, but you can't -- as a terrorist organization, but you can't designate it it's against the law, at least there's no law for the u.s. government to designate any group, a domestic group. antifa, while there are certainly pockets of people around the country, who are far left, some of them anarchists, some of them very violent, talking about antifa and an organization is an oxymoron. it is a very loose confederation -- confederation is too much of a word. it is a bunch of people who are on the far left of extremes of our politics and sometimes in terms of civil activity in this country, but it's

the american civil liberties union weighing in on all of this in a statement, saying, "much as he mightise, donald trump is not the president of twitter. this order, if issued, would be a blatant and unconstitutional threat to punish social media companies that displease the president." one of those companies could be facebook. in an interview to an air next hour, dana perino asked facebook's ceo, mark zuckerberg, about all of this. listen here. >> he says he is thinking about regulations or perhaps starting down social media sites. what is your reaction to that? >> well, i mean, look -- i would have to understand what he actually would intend to do. but, in general, i think a government choosing to censor a platform because they are worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as the right reflex there. >> in that interview, zuckerberg also throwing some shade at twitter saying he disagreed with their move to place a fact-check on the president's recent tweet about potential fraud and mass mail and voting. twitter jack dorsey responding, "this does not make us an arbiter of truth

we secured a bipartisan 77 vote to win for american privacy and for american civil liberties union theonstitution. the amendment requires the four intelligencer surveillance judges to appoint a mutual third party to hold the fbi accountable. so no longer will peter strzok be able to lie to the fisa court with impunity. now the applications to the courts will have to go to a check by a third party and make sure that is complete and accurate. if the law had been in effect in 2016, the fbi would not likely have been able to investigate president trump's campaign the way that they did. this is a big win. 77 votes in the senate is not bad. >> shannon: getting that together on anything as an accomplishment of bipartisan fashion. i remember the very first time as a young lawyer that i learned how the fisa thing worked on the fact that they go in there, the government regardless of who is running the white house or the fbi can going to make the argument without an opposing counsel, and it went against everything i learned in law school i think regardless of where you are, you should be happy t

impact because he became the founding -- the founder and moving spirit for decades of the american civil liberties union. remember kate richards o'hare, the jailed anti-war activist i mentioned earlier? once she got out of prison, she led a cross-country march demanding release of other political prisoners. and they picketed the white house for two months with the support of the aclu. and she was finally successful. in 1921, warren harding became president. under pressure from that picketing and those demonstrations, he finally let all the remaining prisoners out of jail. he even invited eugene debbs to visit him on the way home from prison. here is debbs leaving harding's office after that visit. he joked he had run for president five times but this was the first time he actually got to the white house. what can we conclude about this era? i think it was a time when american democracy came very close to losing its soul. it's also a time that reminds us of the dark currents of xenophobia, nativism and eagerness to hunt for scapegoats that have long run below the surface many thin this country whic