Two of the most important cases that the Supreme Court will hear during its current Term involve the availability of “ Bivens remedies” judge made causes of action that allow individuals to seek...
Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the Sept. 11 attacks. "I don't think I deserved it...
It has been more than 15 years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, but litigation related to the attacks and the U.S. government’s response continues to wind its way...
...Yet in Glenn Greenwald’s twisted world, the SEALs are the bad guys. The SEALs need to be the ones looked into. Is invoking the term “war crimes” to mean that they are next on the list for what CIA...
...The dangers that the immigrant community faces are myriad, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t learned some valuable lessons over the past fifteen years. To that end, two groups, the Immigrant...
It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
Today, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration officials...
Accountability for Racial, Religious Profiling Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency, Attorneys Say January 18, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, in the last case heard during the Obama administration,...
Today (January 18), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a major religious and ethnic profiling case . The central legal question in Ziglar is whether high-...
Fifteen years ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was swept up with lots of other Muslim, Arab and South Asian men, held in immigration detention for months in isolation, beaten and harassed. I later...
