{"id":5436,"date":"2014-08-18T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:54:55","slug":"civil-rights-groups-to-missouri-gov-ferguson-curfew-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/08\/civil-rights-groups-to-missouri-gov-ferguson-curfew-is-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Groups To Missouri Gov: Ferguson Curfew Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/aclu-lccrul-naacp-ferguson-curfew-first-amendment\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uo8ugbilxjzgieenabzh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three civil liberties organizations raised First Amendment concerns with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon&#8217;s imposition of a curfew in Ferguson to quell ongoing clashes between law enforcement and civilians over the slaying of an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9 by a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Amid another night of unrest on Sunday, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lawyers&#8217; Committee For Civil Rights Under Law and NAACP Legal Defense fund released a joint statement decrying &#8220;the suspension of constitutional rights in Ferguson&#8221; for civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even more troubling is the unclear nature of the Governor&#8217;s order suspending constitutional rights in Ferguson,&#8221; the groups said. &#8220;People have a right to know when and where their conduct is lawful under all circumstances, but especially when the government is restricting activities that are protected by the First Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/aclu-lccrul-naacp-ferguson-curfew-first-amendment\">Civil Rights Groups To Missouri Gov: Ferguson Curfew Is Unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three civil liberties organizations raised First Amendment concerns with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon&#8217;s imposition of a curfew in Ferguson to quell ongoing clashes between law enforcement and civilians over the slaying of an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9 by a police officer. Amid another night of unrest on Sunday, the American Civil Liberties Union,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22],"tags":[1754,1753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}