August 3, 2016Joining presidential nominee Jill Stein’s at the top of the Green Party's ticket, the revolutionary activist, organizer and writer Ajamu Baraka has far larger ambitions that merely winning the White...
August 3, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 2, 2016... Other critics blasted the departing commissioner on a variety of fronts, while his defenders joined the mayor in thanking Bratton for a job well done. “Commissioner Bratton leaves behind a...
August 2, 2016New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will retire in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. He will be replaced by NYPD’s Chief of Department James O’Neill. Bratton, who was...
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...
July 31, 2016The Talking Dog : Can you please tell us where were you on 11 Sept. 2001? Pardiss Kebriaei : I was in my third year at law school at the University of Pennsylvania. I was coming out of classes. There...
August 4, 2016On Monday, in the same city in which Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old Black man, was killed by the police and three police officers were killed by a civilian, the “Blue Lives Matter” law that...
August 4, 2016Over two years ago, a federal judge swept aside multiple delay tactics by the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder and allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Michigan’s Emergency...
August 4, 2016A state assemblyman seeking to protect police officers against attacks said Thursday he will seek to add cops to the list of groups for which assaults would be considered hate crimes. The proposal by...
Anser Mehmood is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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