Our panel will discuss the near completion since 9/11 of the infrastructure for a police state in the United States--including its legal and ideological apparatus. Panelists include: Vincent Warren...
Updated: November 20, 2007
The case against the LA 8 began in January 1987, when the government arrested two immigrants and six others who became known as the LA 8. The government placed them in a maximum security prison, and...
Updated: November 28, 2007
Leading academicians, activists, political figures, and lawyers will discuss a critical, oft-neglected, public policy issue: how police, prosecutorial, and prison-related practices lead to the...
Updated: April 17, 2008
Updated: May 21, 2008
September 14 th , 2010 11:00 am- 12:15 pm Constitution Day Speaker and Lunch Ballroom C Speaker: Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney [center for constitutional rights] Immigration, Human Rights, and the...
Updated: September 9, 2010
February 2007Federal appeals court upholds new law which denies federal judges the right to review Guantanamo detainees' challenges to their detention.
April 2007Justice department asks a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees.
August 2007District court judge Ricardo Urbina dismisses legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees and bars attorneys access to their clients.
May 2007Pentagon lawyer testifies that the Bush administration never planned to provide defense attorneys with the names of detainees.
Rumsfeld justifies the detention of an American-born prisoner captured in Afghanistan.
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