August 24, 2023...Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, accused the department’s Neighborhood Safety Teams—a uniformed unit deployed in high-risk areas to combat gun violence—of...
Join CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah at the Patois Film Festival in New Orleans! "Waiting for Fahd" will be screened as a part of the Uniting Struggles Program, alongside "Queering...
Updated: March 18, 2015
THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY: CITIZENS AND THE GROWTH OF EXECUTIVE POWER. The Bush/Cheney administration has thoroughly reshaped the presidency. Unprecedented exercise of executive authority and secrecy...
Updated: November 10, 2008
June 9, 2015In the summer of 2014, beginning on July 8, Israel launched a 50 day military operation against Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge. People around the world were horrified by the images of carnage...
November 13, 2015Th e University of Illinois has approved a six-figure settlement for Steven Salaita to end two lawsuits he filed against the university for rescinding a tenured job offer due to his intemperate and...
October 3, 2016When a federal judge declared the New York police’s version of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other fans of the practice predicted the murder rate would soar...
CCR advocacy program manager Nahal Zamani will speak on a plenary panel at Housing Not Handcuffs: National Forum on the Human Right to Housing.This forum will focus on increasing the reach of the...
Updated: May 31, 2017
April 24, 2019... the record shows that if these applicants can get enough public attention to their case, somehow, sometimes, the waiver gets mysteriously granted. That lays bare the dysfunctional implementation...
April 2015" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
December 11, 2020...This week, New York appellate judges heard a case against Fordham University. Students filed a suit against the school in 2016 after it refused to recognize the Students for Justice in Palestine (...
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