...Diamond’s legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center released a statement saying they were “encouraged” by the Biden administration’s decision to jump...
Reflections from Ferguson Join us for an evening with CCR’s Purvi Shah, Bertha Justice Institute Director, and Chauniqua Young, Bertha Fellow, recounting their experiences in Ferguson as part of a...
Top officials during the George W. Bush era can be held legally liable for the roundup of innocent detainees post-9/11, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 2nd Circuit U.S...
With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
Eight years ago in February, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was officially charged with war crimes and murder. Three attempted trials and countless...
Taking on criminalization of animal-rights activists as terrorists, an attorney told the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday that even minor damage to a Whole Foods could trigger the law. The Center for...
An immigrant-rights organization, with the backing of two other groups, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing Customs and Border Protection of “systematically” blocking people seeking asylum in...
...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
... “Having somebody in place at the State Department is important to help with [released detainees] reintegrating,” said Wells Dixon, a staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has...