The following email and press release was distributed on 5 December 2017 by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) as an update on the pending legal battle against the Trump Administration's Travel Ban.
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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People: An Update on Drone Warfare
On 1 August 2013, US Secretary of State John Kerry made an announcement in Islamabad, where he had gone to resuscitate bilateral US-Pakistani strategic negotiations. At a press conference, he said tha..
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Litigating the New Frontier in the War on Terror
In the landscape of the global “war on terror,” the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are veteran pioneers. CCR hacked into the “legal black hole” of Guant&a..
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Secret Bureaucracy of Targeted Killing
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessl..
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Lawfare and Targeted Killing: Developments in the Israeli and US Contexts
Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and o..
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ACLU to Congress: Stop Targeting American Muslims and Protect Muslim Service Members
[The following statement was recently issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 7 December, 2011.]
Congress: Stop Targeting Am..
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State Sanctioned Killings
It is now an undisputed fact, confirmed by President Obama: the United States has executed two American citizens far away from zones of actual armed conflict ..
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ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
[The following statement was issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 30 September 2011.]
NEW YORK – U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has ..
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What Wasn't Said at Senator Durbin's Hearing on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights in the US”
Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights ..