May 8, 2019President Donald Trump can, for the time being, continue shipping migrants, including asylum-seekers, back to Mexico while they await decisions on their immigration cases, the Ninth Circuit ruled...
May 15, 2019Legal service providers have urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive the Trump administration's rule restricting migrants who cross the border between ports of entry from obtaining asylum, arguing that...
May 16, 2019... “The Trump administration is doing everything it can to sidestep its legal obligations to asylum seekers,” Baher Azmy , legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement...
June 12, 2019... President Donald Trump abandoned his plan to impose unilateral tariffs on Mexican goods Friday... Read the full piece here .
December 6, 2019... Pam Spees, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that essentially, all an oil company has to do to claim eminent domain rights is prove that they are an oil company. “In short...
December 19, 2019... Residents in St James expressed frustration that Formosa did not notify community members about the discovery of the sites, particularly before the parish council approved permits in December...
February 6, 2020... Pamela Spees, the senior staff attorney of Center for Constitutional Rights who petitioned the Parish Council about the graves earlier this month, said her group is working with an independent...
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February 21, 2020... "We at the Center for Constitutional rights proudly represent Rise St. James," Attorney Pam Spees said. "Through that representation, we discovered that Formosa's consultants had discovered...
August 21, 2020...For advocates, however, the repeat payouts show a complete lack of consequences. “It’s no surprise that so many of them are repeatedly accused of excessive force or covering up a false arrest. The...
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