April 25, 2018..."The moment the stay was lifted, all these people received visa denials with a notice also saying they were denied a waiver," says Diala Shamas, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
August 4, 2018... Nasser’s counsel teamed up with lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights who were representing another cleared detainee. They worked through Christmas, and in January they filed an...
August 17, 2018... On July 23, IDP and the Center for Constitutional Rights launched an interactive map called ICEwatch that details almost 700 raids conducted across the country, including the one at the Molina...
Stop-and-Frisk Attorney Responds January 11, 2019, New York – In response to a report just filed by Peter Zimroth, the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New...
Please join us in court on February 14th for a status conference in Aref v. Holder , Center for Constitutional Rights' longstanding case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication...
Updated: February 7, 2019
January 21, 2019Fireside Chat with Wolfgang Kaleck [caption align="right"] [/caption] This Friday, January 25, the Center for Constitutional Rights will host a fireside chat with renowned human rights secretary for...
February 5, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Dr. Steven Salaita over the American Studies Association’s (ASA) resolution to endorse the call to...
February 28, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the Iraqis pursuing the lawsuit, stated in a press release, “Judge Leonie Brinkema’s rejection of CACI’s latest motions means that, nearly 15...
April 24, 2019... the record shows that if these applicants can get enough public attention to their case, somehow, sometimes, the waiver gets mysteriously granted. That lays bare the dysfunctional implementation...
ICE, like any other law enforcement agency, must have a judicial warrant in order to enter a home without consent. But they rarely do. In the absence of a judicial warrant authorizing entry, ICE agents have taken to gaining access to residences through deception, or a "ruse," a tactic that many courts have found to violate the Fourth Amendment. Yet ICE’s memoranda instructing agents about the use of ruses, issued in 2005 and 2006, do not acknowledge any constitutional limitations on the use of ruses, by implication permitting and encouraging agents to misrepresent themselves and their purpose.
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