July 9, 2015The New York Police Department may not be accurately reporting the number of stop-and-frisk encounters, casting doubt on the extent of the decline in the crime-fighting tactic, according to a federal...
August 6, 2015A federal judge in Chicago today ruled that Steven Salaita’s lawsuit against the University of Illinois for firing him over tweets critical of Israel can go forward. Meanwhile, in another major...
December 28, 2015Gay rights activists in the East African nation of Uganda say they’ve been persecuted for years, subject to arrest simply for meeting, to physical violence for being gay. In an unlikely twist, their...
January 7, 2016Decades-old rules meant to constrain the New York City Police Department from violating the civil rights of innocent citizens will get some meat on their bones to settle lawsuits over spying on...
February 23, 2016President Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to help him close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his case for a White House plan to shutter a detention facility he said symbolizes...
June 17, 2016Eight 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...
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...
Updated: March 17, 2017
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...
Updated: March 22, 2017
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 24, 2018...Notable post-9/11 domestic terror stings include a plot to attack the Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey, an attempt to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon and a conspiracy to blow up...
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