" President Obama was surely right when he said the CIA torture program was a betrayal of our values. But it is far more. The widespread, brutal acts performed in CIA "black sites" were actual crimes...
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner transferred to Uruguay in 2014 has vanished and is believed to have left the country under uncertain circumstances, U.S. officials said. Law enforcement is now...
Last week Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates seemingly turned the criminal justice world upside down. Her tool? A two-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons that laid the...
... “History is going to judge him badly for his failure to close Guantanamo and particularly for his failure to do everything he has legal authority to do, said J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff...
..."History is going to judge him badly for his failure to close Guantanamo and particularly for his failure to do everything he has legal authority to do," said Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney...
...Pardiss Kebriaei, the attorney of a detainee and who belongs to the New York-based group Center for Constitutional Rights, noted that there isn’t any precedent for a government to adopt the...
... The executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights based in New York, Vincent Warren, was also denied entry to Israel last May while Simone Zimmerman, an American activist who opposes...
...But from the outset, pro-choice groups like the Reproductive Freedom Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Planned Parenthood said that the amendment unfairly affected poor women...
...The Trump administration, too, has proposed legislation along the lines of the ALEC model as part of a pipeline safety reauthorization bill. The trend clearly worries civil liberties organizations...
