The coalition is rightly concerned that the center is exploiting, and thereby cheapening, the constitutional protections guaranteed legitimate religious institutions.
The government asserts that I am not a journalist and thus unable to claim the First Amendment protections guaranteed to those engaged in information-gathering activities.
Protections guaranteeing individual freedom were dramatically expanded by the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, which came into force in 2009.
But police are not trained as teachers, and students who confide in school resource officers have none of the privacy protections guaranteed by trained counselors and psychologists.
I am a firm believer in the death penalty, but I am an equally firm believer in the rights and protections guaranteed by the Constitution.
In June, the Supreme Court struck down the tribunals on the grounds that they had not been approved by Congress and did not provide the proper due process protections guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions.
"Afghan migrant children in Iran can be arrested at virtually any time, with little or no access to legal due process or the protections guaranteed children under international law," the report said.
"We view the company's business-risk profile as excellent," analysts for Standard & Poor's wrote in their report, citing high revenues and "the strong concessionaire protections" guaranteed in the agreement.
In some recent combat situations, such as the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks of 2001, fighters captured on the battlefield have been labeled "unlawful combatants" and have not been afforded protections guaranteed under the Geneva Conventions.
Such protections, guaranteeing outside review of a health plan's refusal to pay for a procedure, are the centerpiece of the federal patients' rights bill that has passed both houses of Congress in different versions but remains stalled there.
