On September 1, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and a total of 50 legal experts and advocacy organizations filed a submission with the United...
Updated: September 26, 2019
Bottom Line President Obama’s proposed plan is too little, too late. First, the president’s plan cannot achieve the fundamental goal of ending indefinite detention without trial because central to...
Updated: February 23, 2016
Plaintiffs Seek A Preliminary Injunction To Protect Immigrants Seeking Green Cards While Litigation Continue s January 21, 2020, New York, NY – Today, immigrant rights advocates filed a petition in...
Artwork by Micah Bazant "This fight is not just my fight, it's our fight. My hope is that the future is brighter for people like me. I hope this lawsuit forever changes the way transgender people in...
Updated: January 19, 2023
While there has been recent criticism of those taking the position that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, there is a long history of human rights scholarship and legal analysis that...
Updated: October 5, 2016
October 20, 2011, Surrey, BC –Today, as former U.S. president George W. Bush visits Surrey as a paid speaker at a regional economic summit, a Justice of the Peace in the British Columbia...
University’s Attempt to Dismiss Salaita Suit Over “Uncivil” Tweets Rejected by Court August 6, 2015, Chicago – Today, a federal judge rejected efforts to throw out a lawsuit against the University of...
October 31, 2022Along with the Center for Justice and International Law, we took up the issue before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
This article originally published at the New York Times, Room for Debate (June 21, 2010). David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of “The...
Updated: June 23, 2010
September 23, 2016Image: drawing by Marco Perez Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring...
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