Once more with feeling, the President called yesterday for the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. He laid out a broad plan to do it. He laid out – again – the rationale: that...
Long before Mohammed al-Qahtani was suspected of planning to participate in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the 20th hijacker, Saudi police found him naked in a garbage dumpster in Riyadh. In...
... The Center for Constitutional Rights also anticipated the DOJ’s shift in tactics on Thursday in a statement , lauding the decision while calling for the Department of Homeland Security to also...
The Supreme Court sounds leery of expanding the right to sue high-ranking officials in a case that dates to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Just six justices heard arguments Wednesday in an...
It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
Innocent men detained for months or years after the Sept. 11 attacks on suspicion of being Muslim got their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The odds don’t look good. The court will...
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a decision that puts a crimp in the investigation schedule of special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller III. Mueller, leading...
On Wednesday afternoon, a court convened to hear the case of students at Fordham University who are suing the school for denying them the ability to form an official student club in December 2016...
Marjorie Fine, New York, has more than 20 years’ experience leading grantmaking institutions. She is a development consultant to social benefit organizations and grantmakers. She previously served...
... Israel also tries to bully foreign nationals who document and monitor its human rights record. Human Rights Watch’s director for the Palestinian territories, Omar Shakir, is fighting in court to...
