March 6, 2020...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, is representing two of the victims in the case, Sharqawi Al Hajj and Guled Hassan Duran. Both remain detained at...
November 2011Weeks after issuing a ruling that called the New York Fire Department a “stubborn bastion of white male privilege” based on its unsuccessful efforts at racial integration, a judge on...
July 10, 2015A new report examines how changes to the NYPD’s controversial stop, question and frisk practices have affected the police and the community. As CBS2’s Sonia Rincon reported Friday, the report...
July 2012Kim Kardashian's ascendance to the presidency is about as likely as the notion that WikiLeaks harmed U.S. national security, lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning argued in a defense brief released...
September 11, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Anti-Palestinian at the Core: The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S. Antiterrorism Law , a white paper published by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights, shows how core features...
Updated: February 21, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room 503 Brooklyn Law School’s American Constitution Society Presents: Stop and Frisk in New York A panel discussion with Sunita Patel , Staff Attorney from the Center for...
Updated: March 29, 2012
November 21, 2019... The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights...
"Reaction across the city was mixed Wednesday after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent chokehold death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Garner's...
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