December 11, 2020...Attorneys for a transgender inmate in Georgia recently filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit asking a judge to order the inmate’s transfer to a women’s prison facility for safety reasons. The 105-...
Join Multitude Films, Topic, and the Center for Constitutional Rights for a virtual conversation with Executive Director Vincent Warren and Geeta Gandbhir, Director of Call Center Blues . They will...
Updated: February 24, 2021
November 5, 2021...The clemency letter provided a harsh critique of the legal framework and C.I.A. detention system that the Bush administration established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the legacy of which...
May 4, 2023...The groups claimed the discriminatory approvals violate constitutional rights enacted to end slavery and discrimination, and said the approvals "have intentionally caused a conscience-shocking...
August 14, 2015In an extremely rare legal manoeuvre, the Obama administration has challenged a legal request to free a hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay detainee entirely in secret. US officials said the objection to...
August 15, 2015The U.S. government is opposing the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee Tariq Ba Odah, who has been on a hunger strike for eight years and is among the 52 who have been cleared for release from the...
April 16, 2016The Pentagon has sent nine men to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, seeing through negotiations that began during the administration of President George W. Bush...
August 3, 2016Detroiters’ challenge to Michigan’s emergency manager law will be heard Thursday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Under Public Act 436, or the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act, the...
October 21, 2016A federal court of appels on Friday reinstated a case brought by four Iraqis who allege they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq...
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,...
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