February 2008Discussion about the difficulties in defending detainees accused of terrorism in military tribunals when much of the information is classified and cannot be shared with those accused. Also highlights...
December 2007The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog unit yesterday began a joint prehminary inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of...
May 2012For accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, none of the court's orders have been published; none of the transcripts have been released, and none of the government filings have been posted. Read the...
Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations join Alex Wagner to help figure out what really happened in Ottawa on Wednesday...
Updated: December 15, 2015
Coauthored with the NRDC, ACLU of Mississippi, Forward Justice, Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign, and People’s Advocacy Institute, this fact sheet highlights the work of Jackson community groups as...
Updated: January 19, 2024
March 2008Article claiming that the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo and accused of war-crimes should be granted fair trials, despite the difficulties that Al Qahtani, one of the me charged, has...
December 2014"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
February 2010The Office of Professional Responsibility makes no suggestions for holding accountable the former Bush administration lawyers who issued legal memos authorizing waterboarding, John C. Yoo and Jay S...
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