Updated: September 30, 2014
Mikaila Hernández is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on defending the rights of asylum seekers and immigrants taking sanctuary, challenging...
February 6, 2020...“Laws criminalizing sex work criminalize poverty and thrust LGBTQIA people of color who face rampant employment discrimination into prisons and jails. This report begins a discussion about...
Litigation seeks a permanent injunction to block rule from taking effect, and marks the 6th lawsuit to be filed across the nation August 27, 2019, New York – Community organizations filed a lawsuit...
5pm Join CCR Staff Attorney and Managing Attorney of the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Shane Kadidal for a discussion of Guantanamo litigation and the path forward to restoration of the...
Updated: March 6, 2009
December 2007The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog unit yesterday began a joint prehminary inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of...
December 2007The Justice Department, which in 2002 gave the C.I.A. legal approval for waterboarding and other tough interrogation methods, is reviewing whether agency officials broke the law by destroying...
May 2010If Elena Kagan replaces John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush might wish for another try at persuading the justices to rule his way on a couple of items.
Senior Justice Department officials said Thursday that they remained committed to trying more terrorism suspects in U.S. civilian courts, despite a New York City jury decision that convicted a...
The Obama administration remains committed to trying more terrorism suspects in civilian court even though a federal jury acquitted a Tanzanian of all but one charge in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
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