The overwhelming odds against shuttering the Guantánamo Bay detention facility before Barack Obama leaves office have left his allies viewing his latest closure plan as an epitaph for an effort they...
We lost a great light last week. On a Sunday morning in mid-November, 2001, when September 11 was more lived reality than political symbol, my wife Sandra Babcock and I were reading the paper at our...
The NYPD has created an anonymous online survey to get the public’s thoughts about body cameras soon to be worn by cops. The survey was conducted with New York University to get a read on the average...
The federal government’s frantic response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sparked renewed debate Wednesday at the Supreme Court, as justices considered whether top officials in the George W. Bush...
For 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...
...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 —...
Leading 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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
