April 2, 2021..."Attorneys say that new documents reveal that former White House aide and noted white supremacist Stephen Miller in fact played a role in the fines, according to the Dispatch . He wanted the money...
July 8, 2021... Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, faced off against the Law Department when he litigated the yearslong stop-and-frisk trial Floyd v. City of New York...
November 2011A controversial federal initiative aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants prompted significant internal confusion among FBI officials and concern about information-sharing relationships between...
April 2012CCR Executive Director Vince Warren explains that the CIA and Pentagon maintain lists of suspected terrorists to be targeted for killing and have these "kill lists" approved only by an...
Hamer v. Campell is a civil rights case which Fannie Lou Hamer brought against Cecil Campbell, the circuit clerk of Mississippi, for denying her and other Black people the right to register and vote...
Updated: March 7, 2023
January 2009New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80 percent of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday... Click Here for full...
February 6, 2019A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Steven Salaita, the American Studies Association—or ASA—and other defendants who were sued after endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions—or BDS—...
July 2009New York City used tests that discriminated against Black and Latino applicants to the Fire Department and had little relation to firefighting, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled, dealing a blow to...
Without Due Process, Detainees Face Detention for Life, Lawyers Warn D ecember 11, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a federal appeals court to...
A coalition led by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) and other organizations joined in a letter to Chief Judge DiFiore to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers (ICE) from the...
Updated: December 21, 2017
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