A US federal court dismissed a suit on Monday against Scott Lively, the American ant-LGBT activist whose 2009 visit to Uganda helped catalyze a campaign to enact a sweeping new law criminalizing...
This week on CounterSpin : After 9/11, hundreds of non-citizen Muslim, Arab and South Asian men should be locked up and treated as suspected terrorists, despite no evidence of terrorist connections...
...Their complaint, filed on the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention center on the base in southeast Cuba, is unusual legal step since this type of action, known as habeas corpus...
A new report published by the Intercept has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) not only spied on the Black activists but has actively surveilled the anti-racism activists since...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit based in New York, and a team from Yale Law School met in March with nearly 50 families in Djibouti, "all U.S. citizens or their children, parents...
...Lawyers who brought the Hassan case said its settlement builds upon one last year that resolved the lawsuits filed in New York City. And Omar Farah, a senior staff attorney with the Center for...
...Sarsan actually was granted a visa in October 2017 to enter the United States—but then, Saleh says, it was inexplicably delayed. “Usually it’s two days to a week,” he said. “They held her passport...
...As The Inquisitr previously reported, Mother Jones blamed Lively for the anti-gay sentiment that has reportedly surfaced in the African country. The publication noted that he first visited Uganda...
Emails show that in 2018, USCIS employees were rewarded with bonuses and a celebratory lunch for helping to create a new draconian "public charge" rule, which penalizes immigrants who access certain public benefits or are presumed at risk of needing public benefits, targeting low-income people of color and intentionally obstructing lawful immigration. The rule also discriminates against immigrants based on their wealth, race, country of origin, language abilities or disability status.
...Another attorney for the immigrants, Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, emphasized that the legal obligation not to turn back asylum-seekers with meritorious claims is rooted in U...
