"The de Blasio administration filed the brief after two groups appealed a judge’s decision to toss a suit alleging the NYPD illegally spied on people at mosques, restaurants and school in...
"Mayor Bill de Blasio has made no secret of his distaste for the New York Police Department’s demographics unit, saying as a candidate that he was “deeply troubled” by the unit...
" Tension between Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Department was building long before Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch accused the mayor of having blood on his hands...
" Imam Abdul Muhammad said attendance at his Newark, New Jersey, mosque dropped by half. Farhaj Hassan said he feared for his position in the Army Reserve. But to New York City, those harms were...
There are Rutgers students and graduates whose futures are in jeopardy because they were placed under surveillance by the NYPD - operating outside of its jurisdiction - for no other reason than they...
Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward and carefully pours the coffee his mother has just brought in...
..."Until the rise of Trumpism, it had been universally recognized that Japanese internment was one of the most shameful episodes in our country's history, yet in this new era it is becoming an...
...Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights’ legal director, said in an interview that action against NSEERS had been long overdue. “Perhaps we should have put the nail in...
...After Trump’s election in November, advocacy groups sounded the alarm about the long-forgotten program, and the Center for Constitutional Rights’ legal director Baher Azmy said that it was overdue...