The Bush Administration, through an amendment introduced by South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, has just successfully stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear applications for habeas corpus...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
The right-wing justices have once again signaled that their mission is to dismantle laws that protect marginalized communities
*Please note new date!* Please join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir and the No Separate Justice Campaign on March 2nd as we continue to build a growing voice of people of conscience and shine a...
Updated: February 26, 2015
* NEW YORK CITY , 3-5pm, Times Square, (on BROADWAY , on the North West corner of 45th street) -- Please note location change & BE THERE AT 3PM ) * Washington DC , noon-1pm, White House (North...
Updated: April 10, 2013
September 15, 2016"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
Hearing in Vulcans ( United States , et al. v City of New York ) a federal class action lawsuit originating from Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges filed by CCR on behalf of the...
Updated: July 19, 2010
In new FOIA requests, civil rights attorneys request government records after civil rights complaints left unanswered April 26, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Civil rights attorneys today submitted a pair...
The Trump administration was dedicated to closing all avenues for immigration, from blocking asylum-seekers at the border to ending protections for Dreamers to constricting the availability of lawful...
Updated: August 23, 2022
On Friday October 24th the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will hear opening arguments from counsel of the defendants CACI International Inc and CACI Premier...
Updated: October 23, 2008
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