President Obama broke his cycle of empty veto threats over Guantanamo on Thursday, sending a defense authorization bill back to Congress with a defiant message: “Let’s do this right.” It was only the...
The Pentagon is expected this week to unveil a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and move terrorists to U.S. soil, suggesting prisons such as the Supermax in Colorado that houses...
Sixteen years after it opened, 41 men remain in detention at Guantanamo Bay , the majority of whom have not been charged with a crime. On January 11, a group of lawyers took direct action on behalf...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information on the process for adjudicating waivers. Future discovery in ongoing legal challenges...
The New York Police Department has agreed not to conduct surveillance based on religion or ethnicity and to listen to Muslims as it develops new training materials as part of a deal to settle claims...
The New York Police Department has agreed to not engage in surveillance on the basis of religion or ethnicity as part of a settlement of a lawsuit that challenged its monitoring of Muslims at mosques...
... The Center for Constitutional Rights also maintains Earth First is an unstructured social movement or philosophy, similar to Black Lives Matter, and can’t be sued. ETP tried to serve the lawsuit...
...U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson ruled last year that ETP had failed to make a case that Earth First is an entity that can be sued. The Center for Constitutional Rights had argued that Earth...
... Her decision was hailed as a victory by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the students. The organization’s deputy legal director, Maria LaHood, said Tuesday that “the...
...At the end of last year, Prada released a collection of figurines dubbed Pradamalia that a New York Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, Chinyere Ezie, photographed and posted on Facebook,...
