June 2, 2017...Hawkins said the Defense Department's copy also is particularly important because it provides evidence that could be used in the military commission trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees. A military...
December 1, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
In a case that highlights what some are calling the “Palestine exception” to free speech on college campuses across the nation, DemocracyNow! looks at students who are suing Fordham University’s...
Updated: January 5, 2018
February 17, 2018...In an article for the British newspaper The Guardian Friday, Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, argued that the Afghanistan case...
June 20, 2018..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
Let's Talk It Over is a monthly live conversation hosted by Frank Barat with a pool of regular participants, including Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ken Loach. This month...
Updated: March 10, 2021
October 7, 2021...In December, lawyers for the outgoing Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to take up the case. They said judges should defer to the government and should not second-guess the executive...
August 2, 2023...But Mississippi kept its sodomy law on the books, opening the door for a 2016 legal challenge that resulted in the expensive attorneys’ fees. The AGs office, under both Democrat Jim Hood and...
Join the Connections podcast on Wednesday, January 31, from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. , for a live streamed conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas ...
Updated: January 31, 2024
November 2011A controversial federal initiative aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants prompted significant internal confusion among FBI officials and concern about information-sharing relationships between...
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