...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
Join us for the "Protect the Protest" coalition launch! On Wednesday, CCR will participate in the launch of a nationwide coalition called " Protect the Protest " to challenge Strategic Lawsuits...
... “Having somebody in place at the State Department is important to help with [released detainees] reintegrating,” said Wells Dixon, a staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has...
..."It is entirely unprecedented for an administration to take the position that there will be no transfers out of Guantanamo without regard to the facts, without regard to individual circumstances...
The NYPD has settled a lawsuit filed by Muslim groups in New Jersey over controversial surveillance practices — but cops have not admitted any wrongdoing, officials said Thursday. The city agreed to...
...Brittany Thomas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that many New Yorkers rely on vital public benefits. “This litigation is our way of showing everyone that we will not...
...In its press release, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented the defendants during the entire legal battle, said that it had discovered emails between the plaintiffs...
...“I don’t know that the director of the Bureau of Prisons has ever signed a letter of this nature before to individual clients, so that is unique,” said Rachel Meeropol, senior staff attorney with...
A state assemblyman seeking to protect police officers against attacks said Thursday he will seek to add cops to the list of groups for which assaults would be considered hate crimes. The proposal by...
...Though no constitutional challenges over the racially disproportionate impact of the city’s anti-gang policing tactics have been filed, the issue of transparency has become one key demand of...
