In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
Updated: November 15, 2024
23 January 2018 Hon. James Mattis Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense c/o U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Rear Admiral Edward B...
Updated: January 25, 2018
February 23, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security...
November 30, 2021Since a hearing in May, where Ashley Diamond detailed abuse by both incarcerated men and prison officials, she has suffered two more sexual assaults
January 19, 2017Yesterday, senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol argued our case Ziglar v. Abbasi before the Supreme Court . By all accounts, it was a masterful presentation, expertly parrying the justices’...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a panel discussion on imprisonment and resistance featuring Sahar Francis , director of the Ramallah-based prisoners' rights organization Addameer, Samar...
Updated: June 13, 2018
September 27, 2021Twenty years after the U.S. declared its “War on Terror,” civil rights lawyers and advocates sent the Biden administration a memorandum covering a range of federal policies and programs,
Advocates Support NY AG’s Motion to Reinstate Preliminary Injunction, Submitting Declarations Conveying the Devastating Impact of Rule on Immigrant Communities During Unprecedented Public Health...
July 19, 2011, New York – Yesterday, victims of drone attacks in Pakistan and their families filed a "First Information Report" (FIR) in Islamabad seeking an arrest warrant for John...
April 2, 2018[caption align="right"] [/caption] #BanTigerSwan: the fight against the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana continues Last Thursday, our allies in Louisiana fighting against the Bayou Bridge pipeline...
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