"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
"After all the battles over redaction in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, we should keep one thing in mind: this is not, primarily, a battle over information. ..." Read the...
"The U.S. Attorney filed an extraordinary motion this week in the controversial prosecution of Rasmea Odeh, seeking an order to empanel an anonymous jury and sequester jurors from protests occurring...
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program created under President George W. Bush and now being greatly expanded by President Obama, is billed as an effort to...
Plaintiffs Rights Infringed Upon By Laura Maggi THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 People who must register as sex offenders because they were convicted of engaging in oral sex for money filed a lawsuit...
By Peter Finn Sunday, February 06, 2011 A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over...
By Paul Koring Published Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 3:17PM EST Last updated Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 11:09PM EST President Barack Obama has abandoned the last vestige of his vow to shut the U.S. prison at...
Can corporations be held accountable for human rights abuses? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court will take up on its first day back in session on Oct. 1, and our reputation as a nation that...
Re “ After Issues in Stop-and-Frisk Case, Court Alters Rules on Judge Assignments ” (news article, Dec. 24): Your article suggests that our stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York, somehow “...
