A coalition led by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) and other organizations joined in a letter to Chief Judge DiFiore to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers (ICE) from the...
Updated: December 21, 2017
April 27, 2016Last week , community members in San Jose, California spoke out at a forum on police body-cameras. Their number one concern: cameras being turned on or off “when police officers feel like it.” This...
What makes CCR’s work effective is that we don’t just focus on litigation; we think outside the courtroom “box.” From participating in cultural events, protests, and conferences to sharing fact...
Updated: May 6, 2025
January 2015" Embattled professor Steven Salaita has filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois to force the campus to hire him and compensate him for lost income and damages to his reputation. ..." Read...
June 5, 2020... Donate to the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund set up by his family and to organizations like Black Lives Matter , the NAACP , the Center for Constitutional Rights , Fair Fight , and Dream...
"Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences" scheduled before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution,...
Updated: February 25, 2014
July 27, 2015Nearly two weeks after a former Guantánamo attorney asked the Inspector General’s Office at the Pentagon to investigate whether the war court compound at the remote base was linked to seven cases of...
April 11, 2016President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, has been characterized as a moderate who, if confirmed, would nudge his divided colleagues slightly to the left because...
October 17, 2016North Dakota State's Attorney Ladd Erickson has dropped criminal trespassing charges against Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman -- and is instead seeking to charge her with participating in a riot,...
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