January 26, 2013, Newark, New Jersey - Yesterday evening, the plaintiffs in Hassan, et al. v. City of New York , the federal lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department’s...
On February 25, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights, together with several partner organizations, submitted comments on draft New York City Police Department policies regarding three types of...
Updated: February 26, 2021
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, and Witness Against Torture for a discussion of Trump’s Guantánamo. Doors open at 6:00pm and the...
Updated: July 2, 2018
From the stylings of Grand Master Flash to Public Enemy, Hip Hop has a long tradition of being used as a form a political speech and resistance. On Thursday August 21 st the Bertha Justice Institute...
Updated: August 13, 2014
Targeted for removal for advocating for Palestinian rights, U.S. permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil is challenging his detention in federal court in NYC March 10, 2025, New York – Today, a Palestinian...
Lawsuit Filed Under Freedom of Information Act May 11, 2021, Chicago – Today, immigrant rights groups sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to compel...
October 22, 2016In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
September 2008"Torture does not begin in some remote, dark, subterranean cell, where prisoners are hooded and interrogators are masked. Torture emerges from fear clouding vision and it begins on paper, with...
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...
April 7, 2017Trump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal...
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