Attend a discussion celebrating the publication of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror by Professor David Cole, CCR Board member and Jules Lobel, CCR Vice President. 3:45 PM...
Updated: October 18, 2007
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will moderate this panel during the Metropolitan Black Bar Association Immigration Town Hall. The town hall will examine recent changes to American...
Updated: June 20, 2017
February 2014Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey...
June 17, 2015I’ve written at some length in the past about judicial hostility to damages suits brought by victims of allegedly unlawful post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. I may have to rethink some of that...
July 10, 2015A sharp drop in the number of stop-and-frisk encounters by the New York City Police Department might be due to officers' uncertainty over the law, a court-appointed monitor told a federal judge...
October 13, 2015The NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey evokes memories of Japanese internment camps and spying on protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday,...
December 11, 2015A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
November 30, 2016In January, during the same week that Donald Trump is to be inaugurated, the Supreme Court will hear a case centered on the detentions of Muslim men in the months after 9/11, and whether government...
January 5, 2018A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down key provisions of Idaho's ag-gag law—which criminalizes those who secretly document abuse of animals at agricultural facilities—saying they violate the...
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