Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program created under President George W. Bush and now being greatly expanded by President Obama, is billed as an effort to...
August 2, 2021Stop-and-frisk plaintiffs ask court to include community in monitorship program On Thursday, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City...
May 14, 2012- New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the...
Breaking the Lock: Accessing Public Records to Map Systems, Algorithms and Data is a new open records resource from the Center for Constitutional Rights, AI Now, and Northeastern School of Law CLIC...
Updated: March 18, 2022
June 7, 2024...In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD), legal and civil rights...
April 1, 2016It was the year of the Apollo 14 moon landing. On March 1, the Weather Underground took credit for a bombing at the U.S. Capitol. Later in the year, the U.S. Supreme Court would rule unanimously that...
Pipeline is Environmentally Destructive, Not in the Public Good January 8, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, attorneys representing Louisiana landowners whose property was taken by an oil pipeline...
Please join Omar Farah from the Center for Constitutional Rights, Iman Wahy-ud Deen Shareef, and Rutgers students for a roundtable discussion and open forum on Hassan v. City of New York . Filed on...
Updated: February 19, 2014
New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program,...
June 30, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to the Obama administration’s long-awaited announcement that it had appointed a new official at the...
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