October 5, 2015In August 2014, I was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The firing made me a free-speech darling — or the world’s most violent person since Stalin,...
December 23, 2015On November 13, 12 members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at the University of Texas at Austin peacefully protested a public event hosted by UT's Institute for Israel Studies (IIS)...
It has been one week since a group of armed protestors started their occupation of a federal government building at a wildlife refuge in Oregon. Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: January 25, 2016
February 5, 2016... Wells Dixon, a lawyer for a prisoner who pleaded guilty in the military commission and is awaiting a chance to testify in the slowly moving Sept. 11 case as part of a plea agreement, welcomed...
February 25, 2016President Barack Obama’s new proposal to close the notorious U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay has already attracted the predictable right-wing blowback, with 2016 hopeful Ted Cruz claiming the...
February 24, 2016As a presidential candidate in 2008, Sen. Barack Obama vowed that he would close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay on taking the White House. The rest is sad history. As President, Obama has...
July 10, 2016After last week’s shootings, an orchestral concert to benefit the Black Lives Matter movement, scheduled for Wednesday night at Cooper Union, has become tragically timely. “The reasons why we’re...
December 21, 2016...After Trump’s election in November, advocacy groups sounded the alarm about the long-forgotten program, and the Center for Constitutional Rights’ legal director Baher Azmy said that it was overdue...
March 1, 2017FBI agents who allegedly tried coercing several American Muslims to inform on their communities shouldn't be held liable — because that could discourage people from becoming cops, a federal attorney...
May 31, 2017...Crucially, these lobbying efforts help keep in place the the controversial immigrant detention bed quota , which requires ICE to maintain and pay for at least 31,000 beds at all times The...
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