...A legal and educational nonprofit also recently spearheaded two cases related to the Bayou Bridge pipeline, calling for public records requests to be filled. On January 3, the Center for...
A Louisiana state judge on Thursday denied a bid by a coalition of activists that requested records from the company building a 163-mile crude oil pipeline in the state, denying the groups' arguments...
...But those figures are up for debate, given the difficulties of tracking and confirming the activities of detainees after they’ve left the prison. The office of the Director National Intelligence,...
Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses President Trump’s move to keep open the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He speaks with...
...“I have no doubt terrorist groups like ISIS will applaud Trump’s announcement that it is now the formal policy of the United States to detain Muslims forever without charge in an offshore prison...
...Indeed, it’s hard to overstate how pervasive and mainstream these attempts to legally suppress criticisms of Israel have become, including in the U.S. As the legal advocacy organization Palestine...
...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
An attorney with radical environmentalist organization Earth First! claims her group is essentially impervious to lawsuits alleging its members sabotage energy projects. ... Read the full piece here.
...Practically speaking, Trump's order won't do much, Obama's Guantanamo envoy, Lee Wolosky, tells The Associated Press . "But as a symbolic matter, it changes a great deal because the two presidents...
Janine Jackson: January 11 marked 16 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, specifically designed to be beyond the reach of US law and away from public view, holding...
