September 2, 2015Reform groups are hoping a landmark settlement to effectively end indefinite solitary confinement in California state prisons will soon spread. "There is still much work to be done to end solitary...
September 6, 2015Lonnie Rose spent 26 years in California’s high security state prisons. Now, walking into a crowded supermarket makes him feel overwhelmed and panicky. “I start to look around and feel the need to...
May 10, 2016Animal-rights activists asked the Seventh Circuit to deem the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional for designating nonviolent property damage "terrorism," because two men charged under...
May 10, 2016Animal rights activists, who conditionally pled guilty to conspiring to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, have appealed a federal district court’s ruling in their case and renewed their...
August 2, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 3, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 15, 2016... "During a phone call before his release, Mr. Hamdoun said he felt happy and hopeful — a remarkable sentiment from a man who has lived through hell in Guantanamo and lost over 14 years of his life...
January 18, 2017Conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday voiced skepticism about allowing legal claims to proceed against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and others made by non-U.S. citizens,...
“It’s not constitutional… This is a historic act of discrimination that singles out in broad fashion one religion, treats them differently, and is motivated by this venomous dislike for Muslims…...
Updated: February 6, 2017
April 5, 2018...Omar Farah, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the settlement exemplified the power of coordinated legal action and community mobilization while also serving as a...
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