Arguments will be held on May 12th on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security...
Updated: May 7, 2020
CCR Senior Staff Attorney, Pam Spees, will join in discussion with Frank Mugisha, Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, the current climate for the LGBT community in Uganda. Rasha Moumneh...
Updated: November 27, 2017
June 12, 2015Immigrant rights activists on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama’s administration for signing contracts with private companies that guarantee a minimum number of daily detainees at certain...
November 20, 2015In January, several days after heavily armed terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper in Paris, top officials with the New York Police Department held a drill to test the city’s...
November 20, 2015In January, several days after heavily armed terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper in Paris, top officials with the New York Police Department held a drill to test the city’s...
December 11, 2015More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) on Monday, March 14th at 6:30 pm at Impact Hub in Washington, DC for an intimate...
Updated: March 7, 2016
July 1, 2016“The U.S. government’s estimate of civilian casualties is misleading at best and, at worst, a distortion of the reality on the ground,” said Omar Shakir, a legal expert who has extensively studied...
December 6, 2016On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
February 7, 2017...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the...
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