Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
I’ve written at some length in the past about judicial hostility to damages suits brought by victims of allegedly unlawful post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. I may have to rethink some of that...
A sharp drop in the number of stop-and-frisk encounters by the New York City Police Department might be due to officers' uncertainty over the law, a court-appointed monitor told a federal judge...
The NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey evokes memories of Japanese internment camps and spying on protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday,...
A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
In January, during the same week that Donald Trump is to be inaugurated, the Supreme Court will hear a case centered on the detentions of Muslim men in the months after 9/11, and whether government...
...The dangers that the immigrant community faces are myriad, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t learned some valuable lessons over the past fifteen years. To that end, two groups, the Immigrant...
A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down key provisions of Idaho's ag-gag law—which criminalizes those who secretly document abuse of animals at agricultural facilities—saying they violate the...
... The heavily redacted records were obtained by two civil rights groups, Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and are being...
...Vincent Warren , Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights “Two central questions that are likely to be raised in the near future are whether a sitting president can be indicted,...
