civil libertarian

Police officials say the campaign has helped keep the city safe, but it has drawn concern from civil libertarians and Muslim groups.

I think I describe myself in the book as a civil libertarian leftist, and I still am.

Another reason is that in the 1960s, civil libertarians and others argued that people with mental illness were being neglected and abused in the state’s mental hospitals.

Although states have made their digital licenses optional, some civil libertarians also worry about the prospect of mandatory digital IDs, which would raise equity issues alongside privacy ones.

“It’s a traditional view, maybe it’s a lingering civil libertarian view that the jury punishes someone not for who they are alleged to be, but what they’ve done in this case,” he said.