Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee , has chosen human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Baraka was founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights...
Last week Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates seemingly turned the criminal justice world upside down. Her tool? A two-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons that laid the...
... “History is going to judge him badly for his failure to close Guantanamo and particularly for his failure to do everything he has legal authority to do, said J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff...
..."History is going to judge him badly for his failure to close Guantanamo and particularly for his failure to do everything he has legal authority to do," said Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney...
...Pardiss Kebriaei, the attorney of a detainee and who belongs to the New York-based group Center for Constitutional Rights, noted that there isn’t any precedent for a government to adopt the...
... The executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights based in New York, Vincent Warren, was also denied entry to Israel last May while Simone Zimmerman, an American activist who opposes...
... "The amendment is trying to streamline and focus the lawsuit to what we see as the real issue -- religious discrimination against the Ramapough Lenape tribe," said Darius Charney, an attorney for...
...J. Wells Dixon, a senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights who specializes in challenging detentions at the Guantanamo prison but was not involved with Lindh’s case, said he “was...
...But from the outset, pro-choice groups like the Reproductive Freedom Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Planned Parenthood said that the amendment unfairly affected poor women...
...The Trump administration, too, has proposed legislation along the lines of the ALEC model as part of a pipeline safety reauthorization bill. The trend clearly worries civil liberties organizations...
