Innocent men detained for months or years after the Sept. 11 attacks on suspicion of being Muslim got their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The odds don’t look good. The court will...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a distinguished interfaith panel examining the recent surge in acts of religious intolerance, and how to counteract such intolerance both as community...
Fifteen years ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was swept up with lots of other Muslim, Arab and South Asian men, held in immigration detention for months in isolation, beaten and harassed. I later...
Today (January 18), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a major religious and ethnic profiling case . The central legal question in Ziglar is whether high-...
The Supreme Court -- or, rather, two-thirds of it -- will hear a case for the ages today. On the docket: a dispute spanning more than 15 years, in which Muslim non-citizens of Middle Eastern descent...
The Supreme Court sounds leery of expanding the right to sue high-ranking officials in a case that dates to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Just six justices heard arguments Wednesday in an...
Conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday voiced skepticism about allowing legal claims to proceed against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and others made by non-U.S. citizens,...
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a decision that puts a crimp in the investigation schedule of special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller III. Mueller, leading...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights studied the waiver process in a recent report, “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban .” The authors found that the process was almost entirely random with consular...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights studied the waiver process in a recent report, “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban .” The authors found that the process was almost entirely random with consular...
