Updated: January 28, 2010
On October 6, 2011, CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council. In this testimony, CCR asked the Committee on Public Safety to...
Updated: August 14, 2013
August 7, 2015Obama administration officials are divided over what to do about a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has been on a hunger strike since February 2007 and now weighs less than 75 pounds, according...
November 12, 2015Steven Salaita will not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the University of Illinois . The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he would...
November 11, 2015Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year. The university fired...
November 9, 2015Are there too many police or are there too few? In the months since Black Lives Matter activists first organized protests against police violence, the concept of over-policing has become key in...
April 4, 2016The legal challenge against Michigan’s emergency manager law on claims that it racially discriminates has only been bolstered by the Flint water crisis, according to the head of a national civil...
October 11, 2016The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether former high-ranking government officials can be sued for a "hold until cleared" policy intended to identify potential terrorists in the days after...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren was invited to be part of a town hall meeting hosted by Jay Z...
Updated: March 13, 2017
March 22, 2018We talked with Maria Lahood, the Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria was one of the attorneys representing the board members of the Olympia Food Co-op. The members...
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