Eight years ago in February, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was officially charged with war crimes and murder. Three attempted trials and countless...
... Discussing the ruling in an interview, J. Wells Dixon with the Center for Constitutional Rights said he found this interesting. "The District Court acknowledges that with the passage of time...
...When Ben and I returned to New York, we worked with Pardiss Kebriaei and Maria LaHood at the Center for Constitutional Rights to develop a challenge to the lawfulness of the government’s kill...
Today (January 18), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a major religious and ethnic profiling case . The central legal question in Ziglar is whether high-...
The Supreme Court sounds leery of expanding the right to sue high-ranking officials in a case that dates to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Just six justices heard arguments Wednesday in an...
A federal appeals court in Manhattan heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by three Muslim men who claim the FBI violated their constitutional rights by placing them on the government's no-fly...
CCR staff attorney Omar Farah will discuss discriminatory surveillance, policing, and detention of Arabs and Muslims at a series that is part of CCR board member and Columbia Law professor Katherine...
Two judges have now struck down Donald Trump's second attempt at banning Muslims from a handful of countries to enter the United States. A federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order...
...Darius Charney, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the lead lawyer in the initial case, Floyd v. City of New York , which challenged stop-and-frisk practices of the New York...
A commission with Gov. Rick Snyder appointees is asking the state Department of Civil Rights to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge against the state’s emergency manager law that Snyder...