June 17, 2015Saying that high-ranking Bush administration officials may have taken part in grave constitutional violations after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday revived a...
July 1, 2015After a six-month vacancy, the Obama administration has finally found someone to serve as the State Department's Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure. Attorney Lee Wolosky will be charged with the...
July 13, 2015The number of African-Americans in the Fire Department has nearly doubled in the past two years. At this rate, by next summer there will be more black firefighters than there have ever been in the...
What is the greatest threat to free speech at U.S. universities today? Who is trying to block students from organizing around Palestine on American campuses? How are they doing this? Can professors...
Updated: January 27, 2016
June 8, 2016Earlier this year, a man named Mohammed Bawazir, one of dozens of remaining Guantanamo detainees whom the Obama administration has cleared for release and is working to transfer, rejected an offer of...
July 12, 2017Border agents are systematically intimidating and turning away asylum seekers at the US–Mexico border, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleges. The federal class-action lawsuit filed in US District...
February 1, 2018...But those figures are up for debate, given the difficulties of tracking and confirming the activities of detainees after they’ve left the prison. The office of the Director National Intelligence,...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas , on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 from 6pm-8pm, as she celebrates and discusses her chapter in "New York After 9/11" entitled "...
Updated: February 8, 2019
November 13, 2020...“It seems that the United States in some circumstances understands the importance of the First Amendment,” says Angelo Guisado, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights. “But whenever...
May 17, 2021...The Trump-era policy responsible for the fines was ended by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
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