| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.09.2026 | A Nation Under Pressure: From Aerial Tragedy to Global Crises | Late 2026 confronts multiple national challenges. A news helicopter crash claimed reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw's lives in Chatsworth. The US Iran war continues, costing billions, claiming American lives, as the administr... |
| 13.09.2026 | What comes next for the 1 million people who have lost – or will soon lose – Temporary Protected Status (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jean Lantz Reisz
At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, 1.3 million individuals from 17 countries were living and working in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.... |
| 11.08.2026 | Groups sue the Trump administration over its targeting of the International Criminal Court | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Cour... |
| 14.07.2026 | Mahmoud Khalil files suit alleging a ‘public-private’ conspiracy to target Israel’s critics | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of I... |
| 18.02.2026 | Fishermen in the eastern Caribbean fear for their lives following a deadly US strike | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DÁNICA COTO
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An organization in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is urging fishermen to take certain precautions after decrying a recent U.S. strike in the eastern Cari... |
| 13.02.2026 | Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump adminis... |
| 27.01.2026 | Families of 2 men killed in boat strike sue Trump administration over attack they call ‘unlawful’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ERIC TUCKER and BEN FINLEY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tues... |
| 09.12.2025 | Judge orders Georgia to continue hormone therapy for transgender inmates | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JEFF AMY
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia’s prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans ... |
| 17.11.2025 | License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People | More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, according to ... |
| 30.01.2025 | National Politics | What to know about Guantánamo Bay, the base where Trump will send ‘criminal aliens’ | The Migrant Operations Center is used for people intercepted trying to illegally reach the U.S. by boat. Most are from Haiti and Cuba.FILE – In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, an Army soldier, right, and a Marine stand in fr... |
| 12.11.2024 | Jury awards Abu Ghraib detainees $42 million, holds contractor responsible | CACI’s lawyer, John O’Connor, did not comment after Tuesday’s verdict on whether the company would appeal.
Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit on the plaintiffs’ behalf, called the verdict ... |
| 15.03.2024 | 130 human rights groups urge federal courts to hold US accountable for failing to prevent plausible genocide in Gaza | Court's Inaction on US Complicity Could Set Dangerous Precedent for Global Human Rights, Legal Filing Warns
Federal courts are the only place where U.S. violations of the Genocide Convention can be meaningfully reviewed. Legality and morali... |
| 13.03.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Laila El-Haddad: My family in Gaza faces starvation. How do I find solace this Ramadan? | By Laila El-Haddad
Ordinarily, the days leading up to Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims give up food and drink from dawn to dusk, are exuberant. My younger children and I would prepare “iftar jars” and food baskets with Ramadan staples, ... |
| 12.01.2024 | As World Watches ICJ Hearings, 77 Groups File Brief Urging U.S. Accountability for Alleged Complicity in Gaza Genocide | 77 groups file amicus brief in U.S. court, alleging U.S. complicity in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, urging accountability under international law.
The global coalition's amicus brief underscores not only the urgency of the situati... |
| 24.11.2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Farrah Hassen: Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch. | By Farrah Hassen
Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, “My dream is for us to stay alive and to live in peace. We have a right to stay alive.”
She’s one of the 2.2 mi... |
| 27.05.2023 | Вечно в строю | Мало кому из крупных политиков и государственных деятелей удавалось дожить до 100-летнего юбилея. За целый век можно сделать многое. Генри Киссинджер успел побывать государственным секретарем и помощником президента США по национальной безо... |
| 01.02.2023 | Central Bank Immunity, Afghanistan, and Judgments Against the Taliban | Editor's Note: this article also appears in the Transnational Litigation Blog.
Afghan central bank assets in the United States were frozen by President Biden following the Taliban’s takeover of the government in August 2021. As discussed on... |
| 19.01.2023 | Ashley Diamond to Forgo Trial to Focus on Healing | MACON — In response to Ms. Diamond’s decision to forgo a trial, attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:
“Ashley Diamond has decided that a lengthy trial and the t... |
| 12.08.2022 | UN Racial Justice Review Gives Biden Opportunity to Center International Human Rights | Every few years, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination convenes to review the United States’ adherence to the similarly named racial justice treaty ratified by the U.S. in 1994.
Given that the last U.S. re... |
| 12.05.2022 | Al-Qahtani Repatriated to Saudi Arabia Following Judge’s Grant of His Motion for a Mixed Medical Commission | On March 7, the Biden administration transferred Mohammed al-Qahtani—who was initially detained on suspicion that he may have been a would-be 20th Sept. 11 hijacker—to Saudi Arabia. This move came after the Periodic Review Board’s (PRB’s) r... |
| 25.05.2021 | Al-Hela v. Biden and Due Process at Guantanamo | On April 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman Al-Hela’s petition for a rehearing en banc to consider his claim for habeas corpus relief under the Due Process C... |
| 23.04.2021 | Royal Dutch Shell : BREAKING - The XR activists who took on oil giant Shell - and won | Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk (mailto:press@extinctionrebellion.uk) , ronan.mcnern@gmail.com (mailto:ronan.mcnern@gmail.com)
Phone: +44(0)7479234522 / +44(0)7918165046
Shell 7: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Shellknew) |
Instagram... |
| 23.04.2021 | ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC
Royal Dutch Shell : BREAKING - The XR activists who took on oil giant Shell - and won | Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk (mailto:press@extinctionrebellion.uk) , ronan.mcnern@gmail.com (mailto:ronan.mcnern@gmail.com)
Phone: +44(0)7479234522 / +44(0)7918165046
Shell 7: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Shellknew) |
Instagram... |
| 17.02.2021 | Civilian Oversight as a Police Accountability Mechanism | Several high-profile police shootings and uses of force in early 2020 renewed discussions about law enforcement accountability and reform. In November 2020, voters in several localities approved municipal and county ballot measures designed... |
| 04.01.2021 | UK Judge’s Decision To Not Extradite Julian Assange Influenced By Conditions In US Bureau Of Prisons | Julian Assange may not be coming to the United States to face federal charges in the Eastern District of Virginia after all. In a rare move, a UK Magistrates’ Court District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that there was sufficient evidence t... |
| 02.01.2021 | Federal Agents Who Violate Individual Rights Can Be Sued For Damages, Supreme Court Rules | Setting an important precedent for law enforcement accountability and religious liberty, the U.S. Supreme Court last month sided with three Muslim men who say they were forced onto the No-Fly List when they refused to becomes informants for... |
| 18.06.2019 | Government battles ex-CIA software engineer accused of leaking hacking tools over prison restrictions | The U.S. government filed a memorandum Monday in the Southern District of New York in the case against Joshua Adam Schulte, a former CIA software engineer accused of stealing classified national defense information, which then appeared on W... |
| 11.04.2019 | Last Week at the Military Commissions: Pre-sentencing Hearings Continue in United States v. Khan | The military commission for Majid Shoukat Khan, who pleaded guilty to charges related to his role as a low-level al-Qaeda operative in 2012, reconvened on April 1, after a hiatus since July 2018. This one-day session recapped the previous d... |
| 21.12.2018 | Assessing the Impact of Jesner v. Arab Bank | It has been half a year since the Supreme Court decided Jesner v. Arab Bank, which held that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) did not permit federal courts to recognize causes of action against foreign corporations. When the Jesner ruling was a... |
| 15.10.2018 | Who Broke Periodic Review at Guantanamo Bay? | The Periodic Review Board (PRB) appears to be broken. Since President Trump’s inauguration 21 months ago, the PRB—often described as a parole-like body established to determine whether an individual may be transferred from the detention fac... |
| 15.08.2018 | RIP Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations? | The federal common law of foreign relations is a shrinking field. It should still govern many immunity-related issues, though not for the reasons courts and other scholars have given.
The federal common law of foreign relations has been in ... |
| 25.04.2018 | Time to Pivot? Thoughts on Jesner v. Arab Bank | Now that liability for corporations (foreign ones, at least) under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) is off the table, the recriminations can begin.
Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank was genuinely shocking. The case involve... |
| 06.04.2018 | Summary: New Filings in 11 Guantanamo Detainees’ Latest Habeas Petitions | In January, I wrote about the petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in D.C. federal district court for an order granting the writ of habeas corpus on behalf of eleven detainees at Guantanamo Bay—Tofiq Nasser Awad al-B... |
| 19.03.2018 | Summary: The Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 2017 | On March 7, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 10-to-one to approve legislation authorizing the operations of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the first time since the Department’s inception o... |
| 28.02.2018 | Al Shimari v. CACI: Further Supreme Court Guidance Needed on the Alien Tort Statute | The recent ruling by the Eastern District of Virginia in Al Shimari, et. al. v. CACI highlights the need for further guidance from the Supreme Court—or even better, Congress—regarding the scope and nature of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS).
Pl... |
| 16.02.2018 | Travel Ban Update: Fourth Circuit Affirms Injunction as Supreme Court Awaits Argument | Acting against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in Hawaii’s challenge to the third iteration of President Trump’s travel ban (EO-3), the Fourth Circuit on Thursday by a vote of 9-4 affirmed the injunction in the other... |
| 25.01.2018 | Summary: Resting in Part on President Trump, 11 Guantanamo Detainees Petition for Habeas | On Jan. 11, the Center for Constitutional Rights petitioned the federal district court for the District of Columbia for an order granting the writ of habeas corpus on behalf of 11 Guantanamo Bay detainees—Tofiq Nasser Awad al-Bihani, Sharqa... |
| 19.01.2018 | The Scope of the Endless War After One Year Under Trump | “We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world militarily and what we’re doing,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the Senate’s most knowledgeable military experts, about U.S. global counterterrorism operations last October. In this post... |
| 17.01.2018 | When Does GTMO Detention Authority Expire? A Close Look at a New Habeas Case. | Has the U.S. government’s authority to use military detention under the 2001 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) quietly expired? So argue a group of eleven Guantanamo detainees in a habeas corpus petition filed last week.
Th... |
| 12.01.2018 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | President Donald Trump is expected to announce today that he will continue to waive sanctions on Iran as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, the New York Times reported. Trump will set a deadline for Congress to pass new legislation tightening t... |
| 19.05.2016 | Why Are the Lower Courts (Mostly) Ignoring Zivotofsky I’s Political Question Analysis? | Last week, the Fourth Circuit heard an appeal in Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc. Steve Vladeck earlier flagged the case at Just Security, but for those who haven't read his post: Al Shimari alleges that a military contractor was... |
| 28.10.2015 | Detainee Transfer Restrictions and the Captures Clause of the U.S. Constitution | Both Jack Goldsmith and Harold Koh have recently written about the constitutionality of congressional restrictions on the transfer of prisoners. The President’s veto last week of the NDAA was based in part on his objection to the restrictio... |
| 26.10.2015 | A Weak Case For the Unconstitutionality of the Detainee Transfer Restrictions (and a Glance at the Bigger Picture) | I noted earlier this year that the administration might be building a foundation for a constitutional argument to disregard congressional transfer restrictions as a basis for closing GTMO. Last week Harold Koh used the President’s message i... |
| 17.06.2015 | Second Circuit Rules That High-Level Bush Officials May be Sued For Post-9/11 Round-up of Immigrants | In what seems to be a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former INS Commissioner James Zigler for their ... |
| 10.04.2015 | More on the Legal Basis for the Administration’s Disregard of Congressional Restrictions on Detainee Transfers in the Bergdahl Context, and on the Implications for Closing GTMO | Last summer I wrote of the administration’s constitutional arguments for disregarding congressional transfer restrictions in swapping the Taliban 5 for Bowe Bergdahl:
To say that the President disregarded a federal statute because he interp... |
| 20.07.2013 | A Recap of Friday's Oral Arguments in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta | Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear oral arguments on the defendants’ mot... |
| 23.05.2013 | The Manning Public Access Litigation Moves to District Court | Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial. Folks may recall my post from about a month ago on... |
| 09.05.2013 | Harold Koh Identifies Another Big Difference Between the Bush and Obama Administrations | From Harold Koh’s speech to the Oxford Union the other day: the first "obvious" difference between the Bush and Obama administrations is that "the Obama Administration has not treated the post-9/11 conflict as a Global War on... |
| 29.04.2013 | Former Police Chief Defends NYPD's 'Stop And Frisk' Program, Because It Has A Checklist | NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” program has never really been considered “constitutional” by anyone involved on either side of the law. In fact, certain elements of the stop-and-frisk program have already been ruled unconstitutional (making trespas... |
| 13.03.2013 | David Remes on My Reaction to the Taliban's Reaction to the Guantanamo Hunger Strikes | Habeas lawyer David Remes, who represents Guantanano detainees, writes in with the following comment on the Guantanamo hunger strikes, and Steve's, my and the Taliban's response to them:
Several days ago, Steve Vladeck noted the release of ... |
| 05.03.2013 | New Trouble @ Guantánamo: Counsel Letter re: the Camp 6 Hunger Strike | Via the Center for Constitutional Rights comes news of this alarming development--"that most of the men at Guantánamo have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks," apparently in response to a series of incidents in which ... |
| 18.11.2012 | U.N. Complaint Over Failure to Prosecute George W. Bush Filed---Against Canada | No, you didn't read that wrong. And no, this isn't an episode of South Park.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Canadian Centre for International Justice have filed a complaint with the Geneva-based U.N. Committee Against Torture-... |
| 22.10.2012 | Baher Azmy of CCR Responds on Whether Opposition to Commissions Serves GTMO Detainee Interests | Last week I asked whether per se opposition to military commissions was in the GTMO detainees best interests, where their “interests” were defined as “(a) maximizing [the detainees’] procedural rights, and (b) shortening their time in GTMO.... |
| 13.09.2012 | Sabin Willett and David Remes on Adnan Latif | I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going to consolidate two in this one post. ... |
| 29.03.2012 | Abu Zubaydah's Lawyer Wants Him Charged | Amanda Jacobsen, a lawyer for Abu Zubaydah, has this oped in the Washington Post complaining that her client--and the government officials responsible for his detention and interrogation--have never faced charges: "We must ask why no c... |
| 17.01.2012 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Ben and Ritika are off to watch the Al Nashiri trial in an undisclosed location, even though the official transcripts for these commissions will be treated as "top secret," Josh Gerstein tells us. In any event, all the more reason... |
| 15.12.2011 | Advocacy and the Animal Enterprise | Breaking in Boston: animal rights activists today filed a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ("AETA"), which reportedly makes it a "terrorism" crime, among other things, to "intentional... |
| 20.10.2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In breaking news, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is confirmed dead. The New York Times has the story, a timeline of Qaddafi's regime, and an analysis of the Obama administration's war strategy. The Washington Post covers the story here and here... |
| 05.10.2011 | D.C. Circuit Argument in al-Zahrani | The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on Thursday in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, which--believe it or not--is not a Guantanamo habeas case. It is, however, a Guantanamo case--and the only one that has ever gott... |
| 23.09.2011 | Fourth Circuit Holds Tort Suits Against Military Contractors by Iraqis Alleging Abuse Preempted | Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit announced decisions in Al Shimari v. CACI International and Al-Quraishi v. L-3 Services, Inc. Both cases involved tort suits brought by Iraqi civilians against U.S. military contractors alleged to have engaged ... |
| 21.07.2011 | Wow. I'm Verklempt! | It's not quite a trading card, which remains the high point, but an award for being "The Worst Possible Person in the World" comes pretty close.
Turns out that DOJ, in a footnote in a brief before the D.C. Circuit, cited this post... |
| 08.07.2011 | Exposed: The Feds and the Shady Uses of Government Technology | Two federal agencies -- the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI -- have recently been forced by activist group Freedom of Information Act requests to turn over documents that showed some shady doings in their use of technology. I kn... |
| 14.06.2011 | al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld Appellant Brief Filed | The appellant's brief in the case al-Zahrani et al. v. Donald Rumsfeld is now available. This case relates to the reported suicides at Guantanano in 2006, the conspiracy theories about which Ben wrote here and here. The plaintiffs, family m... |
| 29.03.2011 | D.C. Circuit Reverses Uthman | Today a D.C. Circuit panel of judges Garland, Griffith, and Kavanaugh reversed and remanded, with instructions to deny, Uthman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5235). Uthman is the merits appeal concerning habeas petitioner Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed... |
| 08.12.2010 | Some Thoughts on Judge Bates' Decision | Five thoughts on Judge Bates' Al Aulaqi decision:
First, as far as I'm concerned, there is really only one surprising thing about the decision, whose holdings any Lawfare reader could have anticipated relatively precisely. The surprise is t... |
| 23.11.2010 | Appellee Brief Available in Uthman v. Obama | Today in Uthman v. Obama, a habeas merits appeal before the D.C. Circuit, the detainee's merits brief became available. The government is the appellant in this case, appealing Judge Henry Kennedy's decision granting Uthman's petition for ha... |
| 20.11.2010 | David Remes on CCR's Statement | Responding to my earlier post objecting to CCR's statement on the Ghaliani verdict, David Remes--one of the key Guantanamo habeas lawyers--wrote me a very interesting letter. It is interesting, in my view, less for its defense of CCR's stat... |
| 19.11.2010 | Human Rights First Responds | In my post earlier today concerning CCR's terrible statement on the Ghalani verdict, I noted that Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First had seemed to endorse it on Twitter and wondered if HRF really meant to embrace CCR's claim that Muslims ... |
| 18.11.2010 | CCR on Ghailani | The Center for Constitutional Rights has issued what I think is a genuinely shocking statement on the Ghailani verdict--one which really lays bare the group's position on terrorist trials:
CCR questions the ability of anyone who is Muslim t... |
| 08.10.2010 | Dafna Linzer on Secret Opinion in Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman Case | Dafna Linzer has an amazing story about Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, an alleged al Qaeda member detained since 2001. Judge Kennedy granted Uthman’s habeas petition in this opinion, filed in April of this year. But Linzer reports that... |
| 08.10.2010 | Another Habeas Opinion and Another Brief | Judge Reggie Walton's redacted opinion affirming the detention of Guantanamo detainee Toffiq Nasser Awad Al-Bihani has been declassified. I will have comments once I've read and digested it. The conclusion reads:
As counsel for the petition... |
| 16.09.2010 | Divisions within the Administration Concerning Al Aulaqi Response? | Don't miss this very interesting story from Charlie Savage on the argument going on within the administration concerning how to respond to the Al Aulaqi lawsuit. The story, which quotes both of my co-bloggers, suggests several possible line... |
| - | A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers | A leaked video obtained by Insider shows guards violently tackling a Black asylum seeker at a Louisiana detention center.
Detainees and immigration lawyers say there is a disturbing and overlooked problem of anti-Black racism in immigration... |
| - | In U.S. v. Al-Nashiri the Government Is Rewarding Torture and Incentivizing Torturers | There has been no serious dispute for years that the Guantanamo military commissions have failed. At the heart of their failure, longtime chief defense counsel Gen. John Baker told the Senate Judiciary Committee last December, is the govern... |
| - | White House weighs shutdown of Guantanamo prison | The Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reviving the Obama-era goal of closing the notorious facility, a White House official said on Friday.
Aides involved in... |
