How Is the Obama Administration Doing?
Since the inauguration of President Obama, the ACLU of Massachusetts has been providing a periodic scorecard reflecting key decisions made by the Obama administration which either help restore the rule of law or continue Bush administration policies.
Things aren't going as well as we'd hoped.
Download our report on President Obama's first year.
The problem is not that the Obama administration has not immediately repaired all the damage done to civil liberties in recent years -- that would be a tall order.
Instead, we are looking at the decisions the administration is making that could help to restore the rule of law and evaluated whether or not that decision was a step in the wrong direction or a step in the right direction.
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Civil Liberties Updates
You can also get the latest Civil Liberties Update from the ACLU of Massachusetts, as well as an archive of simlar updates going back to 2004, here
ACLU's "Actions for Restoring America"
In November 2008, the national ACLU released a 105-page document with recommendations for President Obama's first 100 days, his first year, and beyond:
Actions for Restoring America:
Transition Recommendations for President-Elect Barack Obama,
There is now an update, with detailed links on actions related to the recommendations in the plan. Items on which action has been taken are marked with red asterisks.
Podcasts
You can also listen to the keynote address by Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald at our 2009 Statewide conference as a podcast. Greenwald argued that no one should accept the accusation that insisting on the restoration of the rule of law is somehow "extreme."
