January 18, 2017The Supreme Court sounds leery of expanding the right to sue high-ranking officials in a case that dates to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Just six justices heard arguments Wednesday in an...
January 18, 2017It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
January 18, 2017Innocent men detained for months or years after the Sept. 11 attacks on suspicion of being Muslim got their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The odds don’t look good. The court will...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join the Deerfield Progressive Forum for the 5th annual CCR presentation to a group of self-described politically sophisticated retirees. Stephanie...
Updated: February 24, 2017
January 7, 2018On Wednesday afternoon, a court convened to hear the case of students at Fordham University who are suing the school for denying them the ability to form an official student club in December 2016...
Marjorie Fine, New York, has more than 20 years’ experience leading grantmaking institutions. She is a development consultant to social benefit organizations and grantmakers. She previously served...
May 31, 2018... Israel also tries to bully foreign nationals who document and monitor its human rights record. Human Rights Watch’s director for the Palestinian territories, Omar Shakir, is fighting in court to...
July 12, 2018...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
October 15, 2018..."I already feel the pain going away," said the father after the hearing. "I feel very grateful with the judge who made the decision to give me my child and also with the people who are helping me...
November 12, 2018...Before the ban even became operational Saturday morning, the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center and Center for Constitutional Rights sued the administration on behalf of...
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