Stop-and-frisk abuses and other abusive NYPD practices over the past few decades resulted in a federal court ordering that changes be developed with community input, as the result of several class...
Updated: November 18, 2016
January 19, 2017Yesterday, senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol argued our case Ziglar v. Abbasi before the Supreme Court . By all accounts, it was a masterful presentation, expertly parrying the justices’...
June 28, 2017“If you’re in this country illegally and you committed a crime by being in this country, you should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder. You need to be worried. No population is off...
July 13, 2017In August 2016, Dinora Doe and her now-18-year old daughter arrived at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego fleeing death threats, kidnapping, and rape committed by MS-13, a gang that has...
August 23, 2017This piece is part of a debate package written for In These Times ' September issue . The print version went to press before the recent white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., but here...
October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
December 21, 2017, New York – In response to emerging reports that the United States embassy in Djibouti has issued blanket denials or revocations of visas to Yemenis awaiting processing, the Center...
One year ago, a force of local, state, and federal law enforcement evicted the Dakota Access pipeline resistance camps. Only in the movement’s aftermath has the close coordination between police and...
Updated: March 13, 2018
The Center for Constitutional Rights is seeking an Advocacy Director to lead CCR’s advocacy and develop its campaign initiatives, both independently of and in conjunction with our litigation work, as...
Updated: October 3, 2018
Justin Hansford, District of Columbia, is a professor of Law and executive director of the new Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Professor Hansford was previously a Democracy Project Fellow at...
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