June 3, 2022... “Wendi is such a kind person and she tells her story really well,” Plotka said. “She made our job easy.” In 2011 and 2012, there was some reform around CANS. Women with a Vision launched the No...
August 4, 2023...Understanding this history is critical to understanding the region today, Pamela Spees, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Insider. In the aftermath of the Civil...
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
June 18, 2015Victims of post-9/11 racial profiling, illegal detention, and abuse in the U.S. may have the chance to sue high-level Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a...
August 11, 2015There is not a little poetic justice in the fact that it was precisely at the time that a federal judge ruled that Steven Salaita's lawsuit against the University of Illinois could go forward,...
October 11, 2016The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to decide whether high-ranking George W. Bush administration officials — including John Ashcroft , the former attorney general, and Robert S. Mueller III , the...
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Updated: March 2, 2017
June 13, 2017One month after President Donald Trump tweeted to his millions of Twitter followers that former FBI Director James Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations…” neither Trump...
July 25, 2017In 2002, the United States government detained a Mauritanian man, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, and sent him to Gitmo. As Slahi waited to be charged (he never was), he penned a 446-page memoir that detailed...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit, Diamond v. Ward , filed on behalf of Ashley Diamond, proceeds to trial on January 19, 2023 before Chief Judge Marc T...
Updated: January 18, 2023
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