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,...
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Edmund Zagorski, a man imprisoned on death row in Tennessee. CCR argued that the death...
Updated: January 23, 2017
January 18, 2017The Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether high-level U.S. government officials can be held liable for the alleged unconstitutional treatment of a group of noncitizens detained after the...
January 18, 2017The federal government’s frantic response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sparked renewed debate Wednesday at the Supreme Court, as justices considered whether top officials in the George W. Bush...
January 19, 2017...Shayana Kadidal, the lead attorney for Guantánamo cases with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the Algerian detainee, expressed frustration with the Obama administration for...
January 18, 2017A Guantánamo prisoner from Algeria on Wednesday lost a last-minute legal maneuver to go home before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. A U.S. government review board approved the repatriation...
January 18, 2017It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
January 18, 2017Over the next 48 hours, US military cargo planes will deposit a handful of detainees from Guantánamo Bay to new lives overseas for what is likely to be the final time for at least four years. Barack...
January 18, 2017A Guantanamo prisoner from Algeria lost a last-minute legal maneuver Wednesday to go home before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington declined...
January 19, 2017A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday refused to intervene to overturn a Defense Department decision to continue the detention of Algerian prisoner Sufyian...
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