While other states are instituting safeguards against police and prosecutorial misconduct and ensuring protection for mentally ill defendants in capital cases, for example, these issues are not addressed in the governor's or Senate's proposals.
What's more, if what we care about is ensuring protection for the most vulnerable people, then what matters is not to privilege a particular cause of displacement but to identify a threshold of fundamental rights.
Collins-Dexter objects to the fact that previous privacy hearings have been dominated by industry voices: She wants to use her time on the witness stand today to convince lawmakers that ensuring protection for minorities online is central to any fair Internet.
So I saw firsthand the importance of a new national monument that would encompass 1.7 million acres around the park, permanently banning new uranium mines and ensuring protection for wildlife, forests, and waters for generations to come.
A proposed Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument, encompassing 1.7 million acres around the park, would permanently ban new uranium mines, ensuring protection for wildlife, forests, and waters for generations to come.
One hope for preventing all of this and ensuring protection for New York's citizenry: the continuing growth of impressive citizen pressure and increasing public alarm around both the pipeline and Indian Point.
