New St. Louis Country prosecutor: "wanteds" practice is uncontitutional In St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties, police officers have been allowed to issue a "wanted," the equivalent of a...
The last “enemy combatant” being detained in America is incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina—a tan, low-slung building situated amid acres of grassy...
On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from...
" 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...
Amid a spate of cancer diagnoses and deaths among colleagues who worked at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy reserves lawyer who worked on a war court case at the 45-square mile naval base in Cuba has lodged a...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's post-9/11 surveillance of Muslim religious and civic groups, comparing the program to other dark...
Muslims are duly noting New York City’s recent settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits challenging the city’s police surveillance in North Jersey, but a similar suit in New Jersey will...
The Pentagon released a long-anticipated plan outlining the steps the Obama administration will take to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility . The document released Tuesday morning...
Uncles don’t fare terribly well in history or literature. From Creon to Claudius, Uncle Sam to Uncle Scar, the role of Father’s younger or Mother’s older brother tends to be a dubious one, shaded by...
...Time is running out, but even if Obama does close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers like Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights says it doesn't address a fundamental problem...
