December 13, 2017...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the civil rights groups behind the stop-and-frisk litigation, expressed concern over the number of undocumented stops and criticized...
November 20, 2017Two 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...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren says the court rejected arguments Trump's actions are beyond judicial review. Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on TheRealNews.com.
Updated: February 10, 2017
May 11, 2016It is with a very heavy heart that we write to tell you of a great loss to our family. Today, we lost one of the great social justice warriors of our time, Michael Ratner. In July 2015, Michael fell...
December 2014"Under U.S. law, torture is a crime that can lead to life in prison – so why hasn’t it? The Senate report documents comprehensive and detailed evidence of a criminal conspiracy of U.S. government...
January 20, 2023...The trial was set to begin Thursday in federal court in Macon, but Diamond instead decided to dismiss the lawsuit. “Ashley Diamond has decided that a lengthy trial and the trauma of recounting her...
A case challenging warrantless surveillance by the NSA
Updated: September 8, 2021
Last Wednesday, the House Agricultural Committee approved House Resolution 4645, which would lift the travel, the only country in the world to which the U.S. government prohibits visits by its...
September 14, 2016Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison...
February 27, 2019Breaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia...
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