July 16, 2015The killing of Eric Garner by a police officer using a chokehold last year sparked protests around the country and led rappers to hold memorial concerts in Staten Island, where he was killed, and as...
June 20, 2016“Where were you on March 20, 2003?,” Aaron Hughes , an Iraq War vet and artist, asks our group. We’re sitting on the floor around a Persian rug while Aaron brews a large pot of fragrant Alwazah tea...
June 20, 2017Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
Participatory artist Lizania Cruz , whose most recent art projects focus on immigration, joins Chandra M. Hayslett , Center for Constitutional Rights’ communications director, on The Activist Files...
Updated: February 26, 2019
On Saturday, February 8, 2020, join Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Brittany Thomas in a discourse around reparations and how we might build a coalition across...
Updated: January 30, 2020
July 1, 2022...One of his lawyers, Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is with us to explain the details of that lawsuit. Hi, Wells. J WELLS DIXON: Hi, Sacha. PFEIFFER: Your client, Majid Khan,...
With mounting claims of abuse and misconduct, what are some of the proposed policies for fixing Rikers Island and other prisons throughout the U.S.? Ari Melber talks to Paul Prestia, Vince Warren,...
Updated: June 16, 2015
March 24, 20011, New York – Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, made the following statement on behalf of the Center: Len Weinglass was one of the great...
From DemocracyNow.org: The United States resumed the deportation of Haitians back to Haiti in January even as the country remains ravaged by an earthquake and cholera epidemic. In February, one of 27...
Updated: August 16, 2012
May 2014NEW YORK -- Justice Department lawyers faced tough questioning from federal judges Thursday over whether former high-level officials like John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller III can be held accountable...
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