...As a treaty ratified by the Senate, under the US Constitution the Genocide Convention is binding law. This means the United States is obligated to follow the ICJ’s decision. Independent of the ICJ...
...Katherine Gallagher, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents the plaintiffs, argued before U.S. Circuit Judges Consuelo María Callahan, Jacqueline Nguyen and...
...“Unfortunately, there has been very little scrutiny into 501(c)(3) organizations that openly support illegal activities in the West Bank and Gaza,” said Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at...
...A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades...
... Rights groups have called on the Biden administration to investigate crimes committed in Gaza as potential violations of US law. Ahead of the trip to the US last week of the Israeli prime...
... J Wells Dixon, a staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has represented defendants at Guantanamo as well as other detainees there who have been cleared of any wrongdoing, had...
These efforts demonstrate the community’s commitment to preserving its culture, said Emily Early, associate director of the Southern Regional Office of the Center for Constitutional Rights...“While...
“Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the weeks since GHF began its dehumanizing, militarized ‘distribution hubs’ in coordination with Israeli forces,” said Katherine Gallagher, a senior...
During a hearing before a federal judge, a lawyer for Khalil said the Trump administration was taking a “radical” position on his case. “Everyone knows about this case and is wondering whether they’...
