June 1, 2017“Are we going to pretend they’re less than men and walk away?” This beautiful line from Peace Poet Luke Nephew’s piece, “ There is a Man Under the Hood ,” anchors Witness Against Torture’s new...
Keynote Speaker: Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Come hear Maria talk about Arar v. Ashcroft, the case against U.S. officials who rendered Canadian Muslim Maher...
Updated: September 3, 2008
December 2008The Supreme Court today revived a lawsuit by four British Muslims who say they were tortured and abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison and seek to hold top Pentagon officials responsible. The suit was...
After Sayfullo Saipov reportedly drove a rented Home Depot truck down a bike path along Manhattan’s Hudson River, killing multiple people before crashing into a school bus, President Trump called for...
Updated: September 8, 2021
January 29, 2020...In July, the court allowed the administration to begin using $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds for construction of a wall along the southwestern border. In 2018, the court upheld Mr. Trump’s ban on...
September 23, 2022...It makes more sense to look at the reality of those shared values. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ), since 2001, when Present Bush declared the alleged War On Terror, 780...
January 2015" The 11 plaintiffs in the Hasan v City of New York case are a diverse group: an Iraq war veteran, university students, a coalition of mosques, and the head of a religious school for girls.
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...
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
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