Melissa Harris-Perry explains why the Supreme Court's decision on one case could be among the most historical and consequential choices ever made about fair housing. Nikole Hannah-Jones and Vince...
Updated: June 1, 2015
November 2007About a quarter of the detainees who were cleared to leave the Guantanamo Bay prison after hearings in 2005 and 2006 remain in custody, raising questions among inmates and their lawyers about the...
April 21, 2014, New York – In response to the ruling today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the government to release a Justice Department legal memo justifying the “...
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...
More than 100 million people tuned in to watch Super Bowl 50 last night. In addition to seeing the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, viewers also witnessed one of the most political halftime...
Updated: February 8, 2016
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 ,...
October 11, 2016The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider a long-running lawsuit against former attorney general John D. Ashcroft and other top officials filed by immigrants who say they were racially...
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