August 2, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 3, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 15, 2016... "During a phone call before his release, Mr. Hamdoun said he felt happy and hopeful — a remarkable sentiment from a man who has lived through hell in Guantanamo and lost over 14 years of his life...
January 18, 2017Conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday voiced skepticism about allowing legal claims to proceed against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and others made by non-U.S. citizens,...
“It’s not constitutional… This is a historic act of discrimination that singles out in broad fashion one religion, treats them differently, and is motivated by this venomous dislike for Muslims…...
Updated: February 6, 2017
April 5, 2018...Omar Farah, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the settlement exemplified the power of coordinated legal action and community mobilization while also serving as a...
April 5, 2018...Omar Farah, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the settlement exemplified the power of coordinated legal action and community mobilization while also serving as a...
July 11, 2018...The current fight against terrorist groups is “totally disconnected” from the nature of the conflict after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ― when the men at Guantanamo were taken into custody ― Center...
July 10, 2018... Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, another liberal think tank, was similarly critical. “Brett Kavanaugh is an extremely conservative judge who is hostile to...
July 13, 2018On July 8, 2013, more than 30,000 incarcerated men and women across California began refusing to eat . It was the start of the nation’s largest-ever prison hunger strike, and for some the fasting...
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