Please join leaders in the NYC police accountability movement for a press conference on Wednesday, September 24th at 12:00 pm on the steps of City Hall demanding that the joint reform process move...
Updated: September 19, 2014
June 13, 2015The University of Illinois administration has been formally censured by the American Association of University Professors over the Steven Salaita case. Members attending the AAUP's 101st national...
June 17, 2015A divided U.S. appeals court said the federal government's top law enforcers can be sued by former inmates who claim their civil rights were violated while jailed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
August 24, 2015Justice Department lawyers argue in a filing unsealed Monday that a 74-pound Guantánamo hunger striker is not sick enough to require hospitalization or continuous tube feedings and that the Yemeni...
October 15, 2015A sickly 75.5-pound Guantánamo hunger striker may be entitled to a medical panel review on whether he’s so sick he should be released, a federal judge said Thursday, advising lawyers to ask the...
Fordham Law School hosted a discussion on the policy challenges, legal concerns, and security considerations relating to the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Updated: April 7, 2017
March 15, 2016Inmates challenging their confinement in special prison units where their communications are monitored non-stop will get one more chance to revive their case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has announced he is resigning next month. Bratton was a lead advocate of the so-called broken windows theory that called for officers to crack down...
Updated: October 24, 2016
February 7, 2017An appeals court in San Francisco hears legal arguments Tuesday on Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some non-citizens from entering the United States. Critics call the order a de facto “Muslim...
June 30, 2017This week on CounterSpin : After 9/11, hundreds of non-citizen Muslim, Arab and South Asian men should be locked up and treated as suspected terrorists, despite no evidence of terrorist connections...
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