And the civil-libertarian case for capital punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Cost of Dying] Reference

Boy, Matt, you sure know how to put up my civil-libertarian hackles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Booze Taxes] Reference

At stake aren't the abstractions of some civil-libertarian seminar, but people's lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ray Kelly's Wiretap Alarm] Reference

I once regarded that policy as overkill and was somewhat offended on civil-libertarian grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: NBA Brawl Shouldn't Surprise Anyone] Reference

By the way, my civil-libertarian self and my acutely paranoid self had an argument about all this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Veniceblog:] Reference

Theoretical objections to strong action on civil-libertarian grounds were indications of soft thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [IsThatLegal?] Reference

If a civil-libertarian Pinochet figure is possible, might a libertarian, in good conscience, be able to endorse that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Did Pinochet Know that Cowen Doesn't?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

But for now, can we count on your current mood of anti-government skepticism to result in a durable civil-libertarian consensus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Message To You | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

"It was about upholding the rule of law, not about what was appropriate from a civil-libertarian standpoint or any other standpoint.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Now We Know What the Battle Was About] Reference

As Democrats head into election season, those who vote for the measure will have to contend with anger from civil-libertarian constituents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deal Set on Domestic Spy Powers] Reference

These are comments, remember, about a man who went on to lead the Court through its greatest period of liberal and civil-libertarian energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Class] Reference

As for myself, I'm a fiscally conservative, civil-libertarian progressive who's going to go to the polls and hold his nose while voting against McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: "I Deeply Regret" Offending Anyone] Reference

That, my civil-libertarian conscience immediately reminds me, is the price the society must pay for a system that safeguards the falsely accused, and I subside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palm Beach Runaround] Reference

At the heart of the civil-libertarian position lies a partial denial that the current war is, legally speaking, real — or real enough to substantially broaden presidential powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enemy Americans] Reference

Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the leading civil-libertarian institutions to have fought Guantanamo for seven years, just put out this statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play It Faster | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

You've apparently missed how Steny Hoyer has placed Obama on the horns of a civil-libertarian vs. "national security" dilemma by forcing a vote on the hideous warrantless wiretapping/telecom amnesty bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Takeover Of Democratic National Committee Continues] Reference

For the anti-death-penalty side, however, the cost-cutting argument runs counter to their stated principles, at least if they claim to be promoting a more broadly civil-libertarian approach to criminal justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Cost of Dying] Reference

And as it turns out, there is nothing more to this claim than the familiar platitudes about how "America's standing in the world" is diminished whenever it does not adopt the most extreme civil-libertarian positions.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Pro-Rape'] Reference

A neat trick in a series infused with roughly the same lofty sermonizing attitudes as the ones the writers have assigned to the characters of all those designed-to-be-ludicrous civil-libertarian mouthpieces trying to get murderers off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perps Keep Coming] Reference

With the introduction of this bill, a new legislative front opened in the war against pornography, alienating civil-libertarian feminists from their more censorious sisters, while appealing to populist concerns about declining moral values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminists Against the First Amendment] Reference

I could imagine a scenario in which this bipartisan coalition of libertarian conservatives and civil-libertarian liberals imposes restrictions on the executive branch (and its use of data) rather than directly regulating the private sector collection of data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Naked for Big Brother] Reference

It was a blind quote hitting the civil-libertarian solar plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines] Reference

In 1993 the civil-libertarian Nat Hentoff wrote Sutton an open letter in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [TPMCafe] Reference

The coalescing civil-libertarian opposition to the Thomson plan now has a legislative target.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines] Reference

That civil-libertarian streak is often obscured by his small-government bent and staunch federalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

(Bruce pushes to use Lucius's sonar device for fisa-like surveillance, and Lucius-despite his stern civil-libertarian qualms-does it just this once.).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And Gartenstein-Ross is also correct that the statements Hussain made about the al-Arien prosecution are consistent with a certain type of civil-libertarian ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Line] Reference

Unlike her majority opinions, her dissents sometimes show flashes of civil-libertarian passion or indignation, even as they remain closely grounded in facts and precedents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

It is remarkable how base-pleasing civil-libertarian rhetoric, so easily deployed when in opposition, becomes chastened when one is entrusted with the safety of the American people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

More broadly, you'd think that the civil-libertarian position would be that the government shouldn't use its expanding power over the health-insurance market to decide what procedures can or can't be covered on a religious or moral basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

As the second charge, Gartenstein-Ross's argument (again to over-simplify) is that Hussain's comments about the al-Arian prosecution and other such matters "stemmed not from an Islamist ideology but rather from a civil-libertarian ideology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Line] Reference

Fredrickson and a number of civil-libertarian and national-security colleagues met yesterday with members of the Obama transition’s Justice and Pentagon agency review teams to discuss the modalities of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Laws Were Stern And Justice Stood | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

At a time when America's civil-libertarian tradition has been embattled at home and abroad, his candidacy offers a unique opportunity. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Reference

I’m a longstanding civil-libertarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorb: Taking Personal Reputation To A New Low] Reference