Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is...
Updated: June 23, 2010
This article originally published at the New York Times, Room for Debate (June 21, 2010). David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of “The...
Updated: June 23, 2010
Anthony Miranda is the executive chairman of the National Latino Officers Association and a retired member of the NYPD. This op-ed was originally published in The Chief Leader on Tuesday, December 17...
Updated: December 17, 2013
August 2010By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A group of human rights lawyers want to stop the Obama administration from authorizing the military and the C.I.A. to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-...
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
April 2014As the Obama administration continues rallying its allies to hold Russia to its international law obligations in Ukraine, the international community had an opportunity this week to turn the...
February 2014Barack Obama declared at the start of his presidency that, when it comes to holding U.S. officials accountable for torture, we must "look forward not back." While he has failed to close...
June 2014By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights "I would like to recall the first US war in Iraq, in '91 at 2:30 a.m. when those bombs went down and they devastated...
Join law students, lawyers and organizers from across the U.S. for a one-day conference in New York City that will explore how lawyers can support and build the power of social movements. By...
Updated: August 12, 2014
Open Letter in Response to the Closing of the Berks County Family Shelter Care Center and Solicitation of New Family Detention Beds Attention: John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs...
Updated: January 10, 2012
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