November 16, 2017THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION may be engaged in widespread violations of U.S. and international law at the southern U.S. border, according to new filings in a California lawsuit. The filings offer the...
August 6, 2021...A class action lawsuit ( Ashker v. Governor of California )—brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a group of incarcerated people—led to a 2015 settlement that included...
March 2009In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo's memos outlining the destruction of the republic. The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to...
February 2012Multiple efforts are under way to rid Michigan of PA 4. The first is a lawsuit brought in June 2011 by the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
February 2015" At Guantánamo, Fahd Ghazy, is nameless. He is known only by his internment serial number, 026. That number was assigned to Fahd in 2002, shortly after he was picked up by Pakistani police and...
Trouble playing the video? Watch it here . With 18 months left in his presidency, will Barack Obama be able to follow through on his oft-stated goal of closing Guantánamo Bay? A shifting relationship...
Updated: December 15, 2015
January 7, 2016A New Jersey business owner who claims he was harmed by the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim groups praised a settlement Thursday that will strengthen safeguards against illegal...
October 24, 2016Amid reports on federal monitoring of protesters, two prominent civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security cough up records on their surveillance...
February 7, 2017In the days after Donald Trump signed his executive order on immigration, it became clear that Customs and Border Protection officers were not all complying with court decisions limiting the order’s...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide the keynote address at the 18th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Public Service Awards Dinner at American University Washington College of Law. This event is...
Updated: March 23, 2017
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