January 22, 2017For a small group of foreign detainees locked in the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Donald Trump's presidency means a narrowly missed chance for freedom. The five men — an Algerian, a...
July 17, 2018...Hundreds, if not thousands, of Yemeni-Americans who fled a three-year war at home have been stranded in Djibouti because of the travel ban, which has virtually stopped immigration from Yemen —...
November 9, 2018Leading civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to end Donald Trump’s ban on people seeking asylum at the US border with Mexico because it violates US law. Starting on...
November 11, 2018...The Trump administration has instead called on asylum seekers to enter the United States through legal ports of entry. Angelo Guisado, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and...
June 13, 2019...In 2018, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of 11 individuals after Trump proclaimed that he would not allow the release of any captives from Guantanamo. “The...
October 24, 2019...Darius Charney, who was lead counsel in the Floyd case representing the plaintiffs, said the NYPD have “a pathological resistance to acknowledging racial bias.” He mentioned a report released by...
Fear grips immigrant communities threatened by Trump’s ‘public charge’ proposal “If you’re not wealthy, you’re not welcome.” Under the Trump administration’s proposed “public charge” rule, many green...
Updated: November 1, 2019
November 21, 2019... In reality the investigation of NYU is a result of two pernicious developments regarding campus debates over Israel-Palestine. The first is the increasing frequency with which pro-Israel groups...
January 16, 2020... Solitary Watch reported that in 2011 “nearly all of the 1,100 men in the [segregation unit] at Pelican Bay State Prison had been in solitary for five years or more,” some for as many as twenty...
January 30, 2020...Ghita Schwarz, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights representing a collection of immigrant groups challenging the rule, said the ruling is a temporary setback amid...
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