April 2009WASHINGTON -- Legal barriers to prosecuting Bush-era officials over alleged torture would be substantial, legal experts said Wednesday. But Democrats were seizing on the issue to score political...
January 2010A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in the Fire Department by giving hundreds of black and Latino applicants jobs, along with years of...
With mounting claims of abuse and misconduct, what are some of the proposed policies for fixing Rikers Island and other prisons throughout the U.S.? Ari Melber talks to Paul Prestia, Vince Warren,...
Updated: June 16, 2015
President Trump’s latest attempt to bar some citizens of eight Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. suffers a second defeat, as another federal judge rules that the latest policy is...
Updated: October 19, 2017
January 11, 2018Sixteen years after it opened, 41 men remain in detention at Guantanamo Bay , the majority of whom have not been charged with a crime. On January 11, a group of lawyers took direct action on behalf...
January 31, 2018...“The Trump administration is making a signature departure from the political and diplomatic consensus that once existed, that it’s necessary and, indeed, imperative to the national security of the...
July 11, 2018...“It is totally boundless,” Baher Azmy, legal director at Center for Constitutional Rights representing some of the prisoners, told the court. “The fact that someone may have associated with the...
June 13, 2019...The Trump administration, too, has proposed legislation along the lines of the ALEC model as part of a pipeline safety reauthorization bill. The trend clearly worries civil liberties organizations...
August 14, 2019...Dominic Renfrey, Advocacy Program Manager for the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks about environmental justice challenges in Louisiana and how they're addressing these problems across the...
August 14, 2019...At the end of last year, Prada released a collection of figurines dubbed Pradamalia that a New York Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, Chinyere Ezie, photographed and posted on Facebook,...
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