" Two activists are scheduled to appear in a federal district court in Chicago on Thursday, marking the first time that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)—which criminalizes protected speech...
A predominantly Muslim community in Paterson, New Jersey was one of the areas under police surveillance after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. New York Police Department officers monitored...
Lawyers representing thousands of inmates who have been held in small, windowless rooms say they’ve reached a settlement with the state of California to end the practice of extreme long-term...
President Obama made what appeared to be a hail Mary pass on Tuesday as he announced, once again , that his administration had prepared a closure plan for the Guantánamo Bay detention center. Evoking...
CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will join U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Executive Director Yousef Munayyer for a discussion on Palestinian advocacy in the Trump era. This discussion is...
Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented by the Center for Constitutional...
A new lawsuit accuses Fordham University administrators of unfairly blocking recognition for a pro-Palestinian student organization on campus. In announcing the lawsuit, students represented by the...
The release of documents obtained through a public records request this week underscored conservationists’ suspicion of a close relationship between a pipeline company and government officials. The...
...Despite Richardson’s contention that the documents aren’t classified, they haven’t been released for public inspection. In January, Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued...
...In May 2018, Katherine Franke, a Columbia University professor, co-heading a delegation of American civil rights activists, was detained at the Ben Gurion airport upon her arrival and denied entry...
