February 24, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the...
Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey...
Now we know who’s to blame for any harm the police cause by secretly spying on Muslims. It’s not the officers who infiltrate religious groups and monitor their activities in hopes of...
Religious profiling is okay, as long as you have a really good reason. That’s the logic behind a decision reached by federal judge William Martini Thursday, in dismissing a lawsuit against New...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
February 1 2, 2014 , New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-USA (CAIR-USA) sent members of the House of...
by Lori Gruen February 10, 2014 Activism for animal rights should be protected as free speech, not equated with heinous crimes A few years ago, I moved to a rural area. During hunting season I am...
February 3, Boston – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)...
A lawsuit filed today seeks to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Politicians, industry and law enforcement too long employed the rhetoric and apparatus of national security to...
