Lawyers and civil liberties groups say the legal battle against Bush's expansion of government's powers could last many years and redefine the powers of the executive branch.
April 28, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a formal letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response...
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Updated: February 23, 2010
January 2010A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that New York City intentionally discriminated against black applicants to the Fire Department by continuing to use an exam that it had been told put them at a...
November 2006A week after Rumsfeld's resignation, lawyers asked a German prosecutor to investigate Rumsfeld and other American officials for mistreatment of prisoners in military jails in Iraq and Cuba.
Amy Davidson and Shane Kadidal discuss how thoroughly a federal court ruling undermines national security claims by the NSA – and White House. Watch the Video here.
Updated: December 15, 2015
On August 28, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government's request for a 'filter team' to review papers seized from detainees at Guantanamo late yesterday. The...
April 2013"Last week President Obama stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his predecessor to help celebrate the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and the legacy of President Bush’s eight years in...
July 6, 2015Nearly a year has passed since the firing heard around the world. Steven G. Salaita, whose job offer was revoked last summer by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following a series of...
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