Tuesday, July 01, 2008

A Step Towards Greater Freedom -- 50 Years Ago

BoingBoing:
Guilherme sez, "June 30th is the 50th birthday of NAACP v. Alabama, a landmark case protecting the right of association. Alabama's efforts to expel the NAACP from its state included its demand of the NAACP's membership list. The Supreme Court struck down this demand, noting the importance of associational privacy for dissent: "Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs""
The full story.

Today, it's the freedom of energy czars to meet privately with the veep....

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