...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...
December 12, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals the decision of a federal court judge who ruled that the government did...
"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...
...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...
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...
Confessed 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...
Breaking 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...
... Reacting to the news, Baher Azmy, Center for Constitutional Rights legal director said,”We are gratified the court recognized the reality on the ground, which is that Trump’s asylum ban is...
February 3, Boston – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)...
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...
