Groups seek information on possible collusion between SpaceX and local officials, targeting of environmental activist, and federal licensing process August 8, 2022, Brownsville, TX – Local activists...
If mass incarceration is one of modern America’s deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, and at...
... The Center for Constitutional Rights took up Mr C’s case and he was freed from detention on Wednesday. On Thursday, he filed paperwork to be reunited with his son. “Friday, the child should’ve...
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... The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was involved in producing a report in 2017 called “The Darkest Corner.” It was referenced by the judge and outlined the conditions prisoners face at ADX...
...Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and his defense minister, Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzain, on Thursday agreed to drop their appeals in a civil case where a jury found them...
Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
...Despite bipartisan criticism of the agency’s conduct, Congress has done little to impose new rules limiting the FBI’s power or its use of informants. “Once they’ve recruited somebody, they can,...
Men rounded up in post-9/11 sweeps push suit against warden for physical, verbal, religious abuse In a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
Amid the national outcry over the family-separation crisis at the border, the Supreme Court last week ruled to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban . This decision will increase the number of families...
