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Patriot Act energizes the ACLU in Jersey  view story
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
KATE COSCARELLI - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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After years in the doldrums, the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is fighting big cases again.
ACLU officials say much of the resurgence can be summed up in two words: John Ashcroft.
The U.S. attorney general's enforcement of the 2001 law expanding law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers in response to domestic terrorism attacks has created a series of dramatic civil rights cases, roused many of the ACLU's old friends and brought in news ones as well.
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