August 12, 2022...“We told the family, ‘After this trip, everything’s just going to come to a screeching halt, and it’s going to be on us to build it back up again,’” said Brad Parker, a legislative consultant at...
May 12, 2023…For some advocates representing Afghan victims, the way the de-prioritization was announced was also indicative of Khan’s desire to keep victims at an arm’s length. “The fact that we learned about...
August 8, 2025“We are very much in the thick of seeing policies like this be adopted,” said Chinyere Ezie, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit with co-counsel...
May 2011Activists prosecuted under Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) have in several cases ended up in the "Communications Management Units" at two federal prisons. Created secretly during the...
Conditions at immigration detention centers are often atrocious, but Black immigrants face unique abuse solely because of their race. Reports from several detention centers in the South have...
Updated: November 15, 2021
May 2010Americans have a long history of scapegoating immigrants during tough economic times. After all, it’s easy to blame “illegal immigrants” for the fact that you’re out of a job...
May 2010A lawsuit accuses the government agency of unfair hiring practices.
December 2014"A white New York City police officer accused of killing a black man with a chokehold avoided indictment, raising the prospect of new protests over police use of force a week after a Missouri...
March 4, 2014, New York – The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama , a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s...
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