On Thursday night:

Civil Liberties
and the
Presidential Election
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Light Refreshments 5:30 p.m.
Program 6:00 p.m.
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street

When the next president takes the oath of office in January, he will pledge to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” But once in office he will also be called upon to restore provisions of the Constitution that have been stripped away in recent years in favor of greatly expanded executive power. American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut Executive Director Andrew Schneider will talk about many of the civil liberties challenges the next president will face such as racial profiling, gender discrimination, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) discrimination, the restoration of habeas corpus, reform of the state secrets privilege, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the use of torture as an interrogation technique, the warrentless spying program, and more.