...Rise St. James, Inclusive Louisiana and Mt. Triumph Baptist Church of Chatman Town filed the lawsuit in March. The lawsuit called for the state’s first ban on new petrochemical plants to halt a...
...Samah Sisay, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform, said stops are trending toward an all-time high since 2015. She said a...
...The policy blunted the technology’s potential for accountability in other ways. Officers could decide when to start filming, instead of at the beginning of all interactions as the public wanted...
...The How Many Stops Act attracted the support of police reform and advocacy organizations like Communities United for Police Reform and the Center for Constitutional Rights, while the solitary...
..."The repression itself is not unprecedented, but the level and scale feel like nothing we have had to face before. Those particularly working in the legal response to this crackdown have noted...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the original suit Nov. 13 on behalf of human-rights groups along with Palestinians and Americans whose relatives have been killed by Israeli troops. The...
...Diala Shamas is senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights non-profit headquartered in New York City. She said that while donations to communities like Ma’...
...S harqawi Al Hajj is a man detained at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba. I have been his lawyer for many years. This week marks 22 years since the prison was opened, and Sharqawi’s...
...DOZENS OF LEGAL and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary...
