February 16, 2011 – Today, attorneys filed a federal civil rights suit in New Orleans on behalf of nine anonymous plaintiffs convicted under Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature law and...
July 6, 2011, New York and Washington – Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the Center for...
Post-9/11, the Bush administration has expanded the use of the state secrets privilege (SSP) to withhold evidence and dismiss cases that challenge the administration in U.S. courts. In doing so, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post on April 30, 2010. While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal...
Updated: June 23, 2010
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post on April 30, 2010. While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal...
Updated: June 23, 2010
Issued October 2009 by the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice Introduction Starting in 1996 the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) contracted with MCI/Verizon to provide...
Updated: January 11, 2010
July 1, 2015On June 25 th , New Yorkers came together to learn about progressive Iraqi organizing on the ground and to celebrate the hope that such struggles are bringing to a place that is all too often...
September 2, 2015In August, I was down at Guantánamo to represent Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan detainee who has been held at the prison for almost eleven years. (I left a six-month-old baby boy at home to travel to...
December 6, 2016Thanks to Donald Trump, the concept of a “Muslim registry” has become part of the public political discourse. Well-meaning allies have promised that they will be among the first to sign up if such a...
January 18, 2017Fifteen 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...
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