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...
...“Given the NYPD’s policing history,” says executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Vince Warren, “one’s past criminal history can reflect bad policing as much as it reflects...
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 (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...
In the last day of U.S. Supreme Court arguments under the Obama administration, Muslim, South Asian and Arab men rounded up in New York after 9/11 asserted Wednesday that unconstitutional national-...
The Supreme Court -- or, rather, two-thirds of it -- will hear a case for the ages today. On the docket: a dispute spanning more than 15 years, in which Muslim non-citizens of Middle Eastern descent...
