August 7, 2015Obama administration officials are divided over what to do about a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has been on a hunger strike since February 2007 and now weighs less than 75 pounds, according...
November 12, 2015Steven Salaita will not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the University of Illinois . The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he would...
On Sunday, December 4, faith communities and leaders from across the city will unite with the #CLOSErikers campaign and demand that Mayor de Blasio #CLOSErikers. Far too many families will celebrate...
Updated: November 21, 2016
March 22, 2018We talked with Maria Lahood, the Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria was one of the attorneys representing the board members of the Olympia Food Co-op. The members...
April 3, 2018A U.S. court found former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada responsible for the 2003 extrajudicial killing of more than 50 people, mostly Indigenous Aymara, in El Alto, Bolivia. He’ll have...
April 9, 2018At a time when the current U.S. president is doing everything he can to project the image of the Ugly American abroad, a U.S. court took an unprecedented step to bolster the cause of justice and...
During Wednesday’s oral arguments over Donald Trump’s travel ban at the Supreme Court, attorney Neal Katyal made reference to how the ban has blocked a U.S. citizen named Nageeb al-Omari. Al-Omari...
Updated: April 27, 2018
October 9, 2018... The Rome Statute says that the ICC “shall authorise an investigation” if there is a “reasonable basis” to believe that crimes within its jurisdiction have been committed. During proceedings that...
July 11, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights points out that zero tolerance “is meant to be cruel…to punish families. It is intentionally inhumane.” The Southern Poverty Law Center states “the...
July 19, 2019... Of course, there are a number of legal arguments as to why this regulation is unlawful. Within a day, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights and Capital Area...
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