Adam Cohen Quotes
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
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If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
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A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.