October 20, 2021Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
May 4, 2020This is the second in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this moment of tens of thousands of lives lost , anti-Asian racism , and inequitable access to COVID-19 testing ,...
Moratorium Requested on NYPD Social-Distancing Enforcement May 26, 2020, New York, NY - Today, the attorneys behind two of the three landmark class action lawsuits that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and...
June 15, 2020Releases from ICE detention in Louisiana! Nearly all of our medically vulnerable clients in ICE detention in six Louisiana facilities were released out of concerns for their lives and health amidst...
On International Workers’ Day, suit challenges constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among majority-Black prison population May 1, 2024, Montgomery, AL – On...
August 8, 2016It’s been almost fifteen years since 9/11, and the sweep of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men from the streets of New York and New Jersey in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Those of you who...
Hany Ibrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up...
Updated: September 8, 2021
December 18, 2015As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon, who is currently in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba visiting one of his clients. January 11, 2012 Today marks ten...
Updated: September 8, 2021
August 2010by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
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