He worked to end South African apartheid, to end the Vietnam War, fought for nuclear disarmament, sought justice for U.S. victims of the U.S.-backed Contras in Nicaragua in the ’80s, pioneered the 1789 Alien Tort Statute in human rights cases, represented the U.S. journalists, the family of human rights activist Charles Horman in a case against Henry Kissinger and others, after Horman was disappeared and killed in Chile after the U.S.-backed September 11th, 1973, coup. When you bring any kind of case, civil or criminal, you have to look for the evidence and produce the evidence to the judge or the jury. They were the supporters of so many of the progressive institutions that we know today, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, which did so much incredible legal work on human rights and on trying to hold the U.S. government accountable for the atrocities that it committed around the world.
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
Published at: 2025-11-07 13:55:34
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