...Both the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking the New York Police Department to outline, among other things, how...
In response to Attorney General Mukasey's statements that Bush administration officials who approved the use of torture shouldn’t be prosecuted and needn’t be pardoned because they all reasonably...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said in a statement that the verdict "is saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising." "It came at the end of a trial in which Judge Bruce Schroeder...
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge,” an intense bombing campaign and ground incursion against the occupied Palestinian territory’s Gaza Strip, the densely...
Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) earlier said : Washington “consistently (doesn’t) recognize the protections afforded by the US Constitution and international law, and in doing so, it...
...The Italian luxury fashion house pulled its Otto character from the Pradamalia collection after images of the black animal with oversize red lips exploded on social media, sparking comparisons to...
In Washington, D.C, on June 13, 2005, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that prison officials cannot confine inmates in long term solitary confinement in a supermaximum prison without...
President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings abroad. As much as we would like...
The FBI is not only surveilling Black Lives Matter groups but also feared that "black supremacist extremists" would target the 2016 presidential conventions, according to agency documents. Records...
