President Obama is a prisoner of the Guantanamo prison. Unveiling a new plan to close it, he elicited modest attention Tuesday. Political media are immersed in the campaign to find his successor,...
J. Wells Dixon moved to New York from Hartford on Sept. 11, 2001, to start a job as an associate at Kramer Levin Frankel & Naftalis. At the time, he says, he could never have imagined that 14...
With so many cases of animal abuse, animal abuse registries are a hot topic. However, Tennessee is the only state in the country with a public registry. But now, New Jersey could follow suit if...
Back in July, racial equity advocacy group Color of Change partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information related to the...
Amid reports on federal monitoring of protesters, two prominent civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security cough up records on their surveillance...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)—a plaintiff in the case that wound up deeming stop-and-frisk unconstitutional—issued a press release stating that though "some progress has been made,"...
A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office for records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed across the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin. The Center...
The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that doesn’t mean that US officials can’t be held accountable for international crimes such as torture and war crimes...
... An interactive map created by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights details 698 reported ICE raids and arrests that have occurred in New York between Dec. 31,...
..But even as it tells asylum-seekers they must go to a port of entry, the Trump administration has been turning them away from these very same ports for months, claiming that they are “at capacity...
