The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
Dozens of lawyers gathered at the New York City Bar Association's third annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference this week with a similar question: What can we do to help? City bar president John...
“If you’re in this country illegally and you committed a crime by being in this country, you should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder. You need to be worried. No population is off...
Things could have been so different. The Supreme Court’s 2016–17 term, which ended with a flurry of activity on June 26, underscores how much liberals and progressives lost by not coming out for...
The 2016-2017 term, which concluded on Monday, opened with eight justices and every expectation that, after Hillary Clinton was elected, the Court’s balance would soon tilt liberal for the first time...
This week on CounterSpin : After 9/11, hundreds of non-citizen Muslim, Arab and South Asian men should be locked up and treated as suspected terrorists, despite no evidence of terrorist connections...
For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days...
SCOTUS on CCR CASE Just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush administration officials may be sued for their roles in the post-9/11...
The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law, and J. Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discuss why the Canadian government offered a multimillion-dollar...
