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DESCRIPTION:MEETING NOTICE: BOARD OF DIRECTORS, MARIN CHAPTER, ACLU\n\nMonthly Meeting: 
 Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:00 pm.\n\n\n- - -\nDirections: From US 101, 
 from north or south, exit Central San Rafael exit,\nhead west on 2nd or 4th 
 St. to Lincoln or Lindaro, turn L (south). The\nbuilding is a large office 
 building between Lincoln and Lindaro, south of\n2nd St. with a parking lot 
 in front. As you face the building with\nyour back to downtown the entrance 
 is on the right side.\n- - -\n\nTENTATIVE AGENDA:\n1. Call to order\n2. 
 Approval of Agenda (attached)\n3. Approval of minutes of prev. meeting\n4. 
 Treasurer’s report\n5. Chair’s Report\n6. Non Agenda Items and 
 Announcements\n7. Old Business\n8. New Business\n-- soccer league 
 matter\n9. ACLU-NC Report\n10. Committee reports\n-Death 
 Penalty\n-Education\n-Law Enforcement\n-Nomination Committee and Annual 
 Meeting\n-Media Committee\n  -- Community Media Center\n-Outreach 
 Committee\n-Other Committees\n11. Adjournment\n- - -\nTHIS MONTH'S 
 QUOTE:\n... the miscarriage of justice that leaves Arar without a remedy in 
 our\ncourts. The majority would\nimmunize official misconduct by invoking 
 the separation of powers and the\nexecutive’s\nresponsibility for foreign 
 affairs and national security. Its approach\ndistorts the system of checks 
 and balances essential to the rule of law, and\nit trivializes the 
 judiciary’s role in these arenas.\n\nTo my mind, the most depressing 
 aspect of the majority’s opinion is its\nsincerity. A primary theme of 
 the majority’s approach is deference to\nexecutive authority, especially 
 in a time of national unrest, turmoil, or\ndanger. The conduct of foreign 
 policy and the maintenance of national\nsecurity are surely executive and 
 legislative powers. Yet those powers are\nnot limitless. The bounds in both 
 wartime and peacetime are fixed by the\nsame Constitution. ... there is, in 
 my view, an enormous difference between\nbeing deferential and being supine 
 in the face of governmental misconduct.\nThe former is often necessary, the 
 latter never is. At the end of the day,\nit is not the role of the 
 judiciary to serve as a help-mate to the executive\nbranch, and it is not 
 its role to avoid difficult decisions for fear of\ncomplicating life for 
 federal officials. Always mindful of the fact that in\ntimes of national 
 stress and turmoil the rule of law is everything, our role\nis to defend 
 the Constitution. We do this by affording redress when\ngovernment 
 officials violate the law, even when national security is invoked\nas the 
 justification.\n-- Barrington Parker, J., dissenting\nArar v. Ashcroft, 
 Docket No. 06-4216-cv (2nd Cir., Nov. 
 2009)\n\nhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000031433391&ref=mf\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/16/18628851.php
SUMMARY:San Rafael:MARIN CHAPTER, ACLU-Death Penalty -Education -Law Enforcement
LOCATION:San Rafael Corporate Center, 750 Lindaro, San Rafael, Al Boro 
 conference\nroom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/16/18628851.php
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