August 13, 2015Before midnight on Friday, President Barack Obama's Justice Department is due to either block or accept a legal request to free a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who weighs 74 pounds (33.5 kg) after an eight...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois will pay $875,000 to settle lawsuits brought by Steven G. Salaita after the university revoked its offer of a tenured position at the Urbana-Champaign campus in 2014. The...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois will pay $875,000 to settle lawsuits brought by Steven G. Salaita after the university revoked its offer of a tenured position at the Urbana-Champaign campus in 2014. The...
January 12, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a lawyer and Guantanamo specialist at the Center for Constitutional Rights , a legal charity, urged Obama to live up to his promise of closing the jail and ending the dubious...
May 11, 2016S everal years ago, I asked the civil-rights lawyer Michael Ratner, who died Wednesday at age 72, whether he thought he had any chance of prevailing when, with the Center for Constitutional Rights ,...
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
On November 22, Palestinian human rights groups urged the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to examine the Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip, which has denied two million Palestinians a...
Updated: September 26, 2018
May 31, 2018...With Trump in the White House and racist violence permeating the culture from Ferguson to Charlottesville, debates over who has the power to speak have taken on an even greater urgency. “We haven’...
These documents confirm that local pipeline opponents are being monitored by high-level intelligence officers in the Governor’s office coordinating between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the Fusion Center. Emails from an intelligence officer in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) document the activity of two local organizations – the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and L’eau Est la Vie camp. Both emails were sent by James Waskom, director of GOHSEP appointed by the governor, to Chuck Carr Brown, head of the LDEQ. One was sent by Waskom to the Louisiana State Police, Louisiana National Guard, the head of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources in addition to Brown.
Participants: Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman , attorney Joshua Dratel , attorney Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Aziz Huq , Martin Garbus , and journalist Richard...
Updated: November 21, 2007
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