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31 Nova L. Rev. 279 (2006-2007)
Freedom and Fear Post-9/11: Are We Again Fearing Witches and Burning Women

handle is hein.journals/novalr31 and id is 285 raw text is: FREEDOM AND FEAR POST-9/11: ARE WE AGAIN FEARING WITCHES AND BURNING WOMEN?* NADINE STROSSEN+ I. IN TRO DU CTION ............................................................................... 280 II. THE MUTUALLY REINFORCING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONAL SECURITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES .................................................... 282 III. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S POST-9/11 ABUSES OF POWER, WHICH HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED BY IDEOLOGICALLY DIVERSE JUDGES AND OTHER LEGAL EXPERTS ............................................ 288 IV. THE NON-PARTISAN NATURE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES VIOLATIONS INCLUDING VIOLATIONS DURING THE CURRENT WAR ON TERROR, AND OTHER NATIONAL CRISES ...................................................... 291 V. GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES THAT GOVERN CIVIL LIBERTIES DURING A NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS ....................... 295 VI. POST-9/11 CONCERNS SPECIFICALLY REGARDING WOMEN ......... 299 VII. POST-9/11 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN WHO ARE VISIBLY IDENTIFIABLE AS MUSLIM THROUGH THEIR RELIGIOUS ATTIRE.. 304 VIII. THE INCREASED VULNERABILITY OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS TO ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION AND SEXUAL ABUSE RESULTING FROM THE STEPPED-UP POST-9/11 AMMUS AGAINST IMMIGRANTS IN G ENE RA L ................................................................................... 3 11 IX . C ON CLU SION .................................................................................. 3 13 * This essay is based on the lecture Professor Strossen delivered at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center on November 13, 2006, as part of the Tenth Annual Leo Goodwin, Sr. Lecture Series, on the theme of Tilting the Scales: The Changing Roles of Women in the Law and Legal Practice. + Professor of Law, New York Law School; President, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Professor Strossen thanks Lenora Lapidus, Director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, for several ideas that are incorporated in this article, and also for all the valiant work that she and her Women's Rights Project colleagues perform, some of which this article de- scribes. She thanks her colleagues at the ACLU's Florida affiliate for their important work, some of which this article describes. She also thanks Howard Simon, the Florida affiliate's Executive Director, and Randall Marshall, its Legal Director, for the information they pro- vided about this work. For valuable assistance with the research and drafting of footnotes for this article, Professor Strossen gratefully acknowledges her Chief Aide, Steven Cunningham (New York Law School '99), her Assistant Danica Rue (New York Law School '09), her Research Assistants Corey Callahan (New York Law School '09), David Ofenloch (New York Law School '07), and Trisha Olson (New York Law School '08), and the Nova Law Review editors. They bear most of the credit and the responsibility for the footnotes.

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