" On Monday, June 22, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the dismissal of a federal lawsuit that bears my name, Blum v.Holder and challenges the constitutionality of the Animal...
FEB. 5, 2014 GENEVA — A sharply critical United Nations panel accused the Vatican on Wednesday of putting its reputation and interests above those of children who had been sexually abused by...
"When we filed the first case challenging detentions at Guantánamo Bay shortly after the first men arrived there in 2002, we didn’t know what to expect. Family members of a few of...
"Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign 'enemy combatants' held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in...
A pro-Palestinian college professor's tenure offer at the University of Illinois was allegedly rescinded after he made anti-Israel tweets about the war in Gaza. Dr. Steven Salaita's case "is sort of...
The Ferguson grand jury operated in an unorthodox way in the Darren Wilson case: The prosecutor, Robert McCullough, presented all the evidence and then took a hands-off approach designed to shift...
" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s...
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
If Barack Obama can publicly apologize for the accidental killings of two al-Qaida hostages – one American and one Italian – by a US drone strike, the White House should extend the same courtesy to a...
