San Francisco ‘Green’ Investor Christopher James relying on decades-old, corrupt rezoning to build massive grain terminal that would threaten health and safety of Black community Watch a short video...
December 19, 2007, Washington, D.C. - The estate of an Iraqi man who was killed when Blackwater personnel opened fire on innocent bystanders in and around Al Watahba Square in Baghdad on Sept. 9 sued...
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
January 26, 2013, Newark, New Jersey - Yesterday evening, the plaintiffs in Hassan, et al. v. City of New York , the federal lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department’s...
Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, and Witness Against Torture for a discussion of Trump’s Guantánamo. Doors open at 6:00pm and the...
From the stylings of Grand Master Flash to Public Enemy, Hip Hop has a long tradition of being used as a form a political speech and resistance. On Thursday August 21 st the Bertha Justice Institute...
In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
