October 2011Democracy Now! Journalist Amy Goodman, and two of her producers will receive $100,000 in a settlement over their arrests during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Rachel Meeropol, Senior staff attorney with the center for constitutional rights, dives into two big cases surrounding both the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and solitary confinement.
Updated: June 1, 2015
Douglas v. Holloman is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) defended New York City guidelines on sterilization procedures on behalf of women and groups concerned about...
Updated: October 9, 2007
In the 1960s, particularly after HUAC produced Operation Abolition, a film meant to justify the committee’s existence which inadvertently underscored its high-handed tactics, people increasingly...
Updated: October 9, 2007
May 2007A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the National Security Agency in New York, claiming that the U.S. illegally spied on 16 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay...
Updated: September 8, 2021
January 2015" Secret midnight flights and a flurry of prisoner releases. We’ll look at the new push to shut down the prison at Guantanamo. ..." Listen to the full broadcast here .
July 1, 2022... Prison life here is an unmanned, evil environment where the prey play the part and the vulnerable succumb. But what's happening now is disgusting. ... Read the full piece here .
United States v. Brett Bursey is an appeal brief filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and cooperating attorney Lewis Pitts, charging that the Secret Service violated its own...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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