The United States on Saturday transferred nine Yemeni detainees from its wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay to Saudi Arabia, completing a long-sought diplomatic deal ahead of a planned visit to Riyadh...
Eight years ago in February, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was officially charged with war crimes and murder. Three attempted trials and countless...
The Pentagon said Monday it delivered two prisoners to Serbia, ending their more than 14 years of detention without charges and wrapping up a weekend of releases that downsized the captive population...
...Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which challenged New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy in court, said the tactic effectively treated “race as a...
Taking on criminalization of animal-rights activists as terrorists, an attorney told the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday that even minor damage to a Whole Foods could trigger the law. The Center for...
The Supreme Court limped its way into a dispute over post-9/11 detentions Tuesday, announcing that it will hear a long-running lawsuits on the issue but also indicating that only the bare minimum of...
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether officials in President George W. Bush’s administration — including John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and Robert Mueller, the former FBI...
H igh theater was on full display during Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general this week. He fielded compliments on his character and knocked softball...
Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the Algerian prisoner, said the Obama administration's instinct to fight off legal challenges...
...Vince Warren: “What we’re really talking about is structural racism. So, if you’re thinking about structures that you are dismantling, rather than thinking about policies that you’re passing, you’...
