In 2011, over 684,000 people were stopped by the NYPD, 87 percent of whom were Black and Latino residents — although they comprise only about 23 percent and 29 percent of New York City’s...
President Barack Obama's key rallying message for re-election is "Forward"; as in his purported revival of the economy and promised expanding and fortifying of health care. But in response to those...
...Omar Shakir is the Israel and Palestine Director at the Human Rights Watch. He investigates human rights abuses in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. He has been responsible for many of the...
With the no-fly list’s processes already found unconstitutional, judges on the Second Circuit argued Wednesday over whether FBI agents who used it to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should...
... On the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the U.S. renewed its call for the U.S. to pay war reparations to the people of Iraq. This is one...
... In a release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, plaintiff Naveed Shinwari said he was "gratified that the court has recognized my right to be free from religious discrimination." He added...
...The landowners are represented by Pam Spees and Astha Sharma Pokharel at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Misha Mitchell at Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and Bill Quigley. Alexis Daniel, a...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
This case challenges two of Trump administration’s latest immigration-based public charge policies, building upon our historic case Make the Road New York v. Cuccinelli , in which we successfully...
Two progressive organizations that have often shared a path during their past half-centuries of existence — one a social activist coalition, the other a legal advocacy group that often defends such...
