June 19, 2017The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can't sue top U.S. law enforcement officials. The justices by a 4-2 vote ended a long-running lawsuit against former...
December 1, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
In a case that highlights what some are calling the “Palestine exception” to free speech on college campuses across the nation, DemocracyNow! looks at students who are suing Fordham University’s...
Updated: January 5, 2018
January 30, 2018...Opponents of the new timetable were quick to criticize it. "The NYPD decision today seems extremely premature," said Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional...
June 20, 2018..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
Let's Talk It Over is a monthly live conversation hosted by Frank Barat with a pool of regular participants, including Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ken Loach. This month...
Updated: March 10, 2021
May 14, 2021... Imprisoned in Georgia, Ashley Diamond was raped 14 times by both sexually violent inmates and prison staff. This was after a guard talked about her gender identity using slurs like “freak” and “...
August 2, 2023...But Mississippi kept its sodomy law on the books, opening the door for a 2016 legal challenge that resulted in the expensive attorneys’ fees. The AGs office, under both Democrat Jim Hood and...
Join Assembly Members Marcela Mitaynes and Zohran Mamdani, the Not On Our Dime! Coalition , Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and the Arab American Association of New York for an in-person...
Updated: October 25, 2023
Join the Connections podcast on Wednesday, January 31, from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. , for a live streamed conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas ...
Updated: January 31, 2024
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