December 11, 2013, New York – Today, as Pope Francis was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center for...
Part I Pastor Scott Lively greets me with a skeptical smile, though we’ve talked several times by phone. I don’t blame him for his reluctance to meet in person – there aren’t...
Former top U.S. officials can be held liable for the abuse of hundreds of detainees rounded up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for minor immigration violations, a federal appeals court said...
Former top U.S. officials can be held liable for the abuse of hundreds of detainees rounded up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for minor immigration violations, a federal appeals court said...
U.S. Justice Department lawyers on Friday blocked a legal request that a Guantanamo Bay detainee who weighs just 74 lbs (33.5 kg) after an eight-year hunger strike be released for health reasons...
...“The government played Russian roulette with Mr. Ba Odah’s life for more than a year,” his lawyer, Omar Farah, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney said. “That he survived...
...Baher Azmy, lead counsel in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Muslims plaintiffs in New Jersey who are suing the NYPD over the surveillance program, said that even if Trump wanted to resurrect the...
The Talking Dog : Can you please tell us where were you on 11 Sept. 2001? Pardiss Kebriaei : I was in my third year at law school at the University of Pennsylvania. I was coming out of classes. There...
...Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights , says these aren’t small changes to immigration policy. “In the macro sense, I am very concerned that we are moving back...
“If you are cold, put on a sweater, perhaps an overcoat, and maybe even turn up the heat,” Justice Stephen Breyer told his colleagues from the Supreme Court bench Monday. “But don’t set fire to the...
