More than 15 years after allowing sweeping post-9/11 detentions, the government officials who implemented the policies are off the hook. Top officials in the Bush administration, including former...
Two years ago, a settlement in our case, Ashker vs. Governor of California , ended the practice of indefinite solitary confinement in California, resulting in the transfer of over 1,600 men into...
The Israeli government is seeking immunity for former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak in a civil lawsuit filed last October by the parents of Furkan Doğan , an American teenager killed on May...
July 22, 2021 The Honorable Janet Yellen Secretary of the Treasury Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Secretary Yellen, We write to express our...
"New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert themselves into the high-profile litigation,...
These efforts demonstrate the community’s commitment to preserving its culture, said Emily Early, associate director of the Southern Regional Office of the Center for Constitutional Rights...“While...
...The plaintiffs behind two high-profile stop-and-frisk lawsuits filed an emergency motion against the city on May 26, demanding a moratorium of the Police Department’s enforcement of social...
...The plaintiffs behind two high-profile stop-and-frisk lawsuits filed an emergency motion against the city on May 26, demanding a moratorium of the Police Department’s enforcement of social...
In the last day of U.S. Supreme Court arguments under the Obama administration, Muslim, South Asian and Arab men rounded up in New York after 9/11 asserted Wednesday that unconstitutional national-...
Opponents of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline took the fight to Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday. The groups Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Center for Constitutional Rights held a news conference...
