Guests: Paul Washington , past president of the fraternal order of black firefighters, the Vulcan Society. Shayana Kadidal , managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. AMY GOODMAN:...
Updated: March 18, 2010
July 2009A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino...
May 20, 2022... The idea of litigation as recovery was raised again by a West Coast-based therapist, Gerald Gray, who had been counseling survivors of political torture. Gray had attended a talk by a human...
April 24, 2012, National — After months of pressure from human rights activists, the U.S. government has granted Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar a visa to attend and speak at an International...
June 5, 2016...A leading constitutional rights attorney calls the action "21st century McCarthyism." Baher Azmy, the legal director of the New York-based nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, said that...
In the latest pushback against President Trump’s attack on immigrants rights, a federal judge in California has temporarily halted Trump’s asylum ban, which attempted to deny asylum to anyone...
Updated: November 20, 2018
October 2012During oral arguments in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ lawsuit against the government seeking public access to basic court documents in Bradley Manning’s court-martial trial,...
The intensification of anti-immigrant policies openly exposes the extreme discriminatory drift of the U.S. government. FIDH and the Center for Constitutional Rights warn the Trump administration that...
February 27, 2012, Olympia, WA and New York, NY – Today, in a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board of directors for their decision to boycott...
August 15, 2019, New York – In response to Israel’s announcement that it would not allow two sitting members of the United States Congress to travel to Palestine, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
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