November 13, 2015The University of Illinois will pay $875,000 to settle lawsuits brought by Steven G. Salaita after the university revoked its offer of a tenured position at the Urbana-Champaign campus in 2014. The...
January 12, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a lawyer and Guantanamo specialist at the Center for Constitutional Rights , a legal charity, urged Obama to live up to his promise of closing the jail and ending the dubious...
More than 100 million people tuned in to watch Super Bowl 50 last night. In addition to seeing the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, viewers also witnessed one of the most political halftime...
Updated: February 8, 2016
May 11, 2016S everal years ago, I asked the civil-rights lawyer Michael Ratner, who died Wednesday at age 72, whether he thought he had any chance of prevailing when, with the Center for Constitutional Rights ,...
October 11, 2016The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider a long-running lawsuit against former attorney general John D. Ashcroft and other top officials filed by immigrants who say they were racially...
April 22, 2017Just days after civil rights attorneys and community groups held a news conference announcing they were asking a judge to delay the start of the NYPD's body camera program, a judge dismissed the...
November 30, 2017The seven-member Ohio Supreme Court unanimously rejected a free speech and equal protection challenge to the state’s law making it a felony assault for a person who knows he is HIV-positive to engage...
May 31, 2018...With Trump in the White House and racist violence permeating the culture from Ferguson to Charlottesville, debates over who has the power to speak have taken on an even greater urgency. “We haven’...
These documents confirm that local pipeline opponents are being monitored by high-level intelligence officers in the Governor’s office coordinating between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the Fusion Center. Emails from an intelligence officer in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) document the activity of two local organizations – the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and L’eau Est la Vie camp. Both emails were sent by James Waskom, director of GOHSEP appointed by the governor, to Chuck Carr Brown, head of the LDEQ. One was sent by Waskom to the Louisiana State Police, Louisiana National Guard, the head of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources in addition to Brown.
Expresses Outrage at Justice Department Decision Not to File Civil Rights Charges Against Officer Responsible July 17, 2019, New York – Five years after the killing of Eric Garner by NYPD officer...
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