Civil rights attorneys knew that Public Act 436, Michigan’s current emergency manager law , was likely illegal and unconstitutional way back when it was first enacted, in December 2012. This was well...
Karim Bostan was forced to flee his village in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and spent his formative years as a refugee in Pakistan. In the early 1990s, Bostan made his way back to his home...
...“The Supreme Court unequivocally declared this kind of “sodomy” statute unconstitutional thirteen years ago…[when it ruled that the] mere existence of sodomy statutes is an invitation to subject...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights slammed the university’s action as a threat to free speech on campus. “If Fordham’s guarantee of freedom of inquiry means anything, it’s that students who want...
The idea of incinerating artwork made by wartime captives at Guantánamo Bay has stirred such alarm that the U.S. military is now discussing keeping and cataloging detainee art rather than burning it...
Two civil rights groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Color of Change (COR), have filed a motion asking a judge to force the Department of Homeland Security to un-redact a...
... The SoHo store windows, however, were dominated by one particular charm — the one that looked like a red-mouthed monkey. That image has a particular, painful resonance in this country. And it...
... In a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday, advocacy groups No More Deaths and the Center for Constitutional Rights expressed...
...The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights and others joined the ACLU in seeking the injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The...
...“These charges have zero legal merit,” said Pam Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who’s representing the activists, said in a statement . “They do not even pass the...
