Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen

Former President, ACLU; Professor of Law; New York Law School

Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. From 1991 through 2008, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman to head the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Her most recent book is HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship.
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First of all, Strossen says, the government shouldn’t violate individual rights.
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All the national candidates capitulate on civil liberties, Strossen says.
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Secrecy was a problem in the Bush administration before the attacks, Strossen says.
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Strossen looks to Louis Brandeis’ very broad definition of privacy.
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There are 100 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that the A.C.L.U. does not dispute, Strossen says.