June 15, 2011, New York – Today, as Congressman Peter King leads the House Committee on Homeland Security through the second in a series of hearings examining so-called homegrown Islamic...
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
December 16, 2013, New York – Today, in response to the transfer of Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood from Guantánamo to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, the Center...
November 21, 2014, New York – In response to yesterday’s announcement that, as part of his new immigration policy, President Obama has terminated the Secure Communities deportation...
...Ghita Schwarz, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the government’s argument was flimsy. “Every time a government policy is challenged that's not harm to the...
On behalf of Occupy Wall Street protestors, a group of New York civil liberties lawyers has issued the following letter to the CEO of Brookfield Office Properties, who recently requested NYPD...
Her integrity has been unfairly smeared in the wake of the stop-and-frisk ruling Last Thursday, three federal appeals court judges removed Judge Shira Scheindlin from the well- known stop-and-frisk...
Last month, the Washington Supreme Court struck down the state’s anti-SLAPP law as unconstitutional, concluding only the first chapter of a lawsuit that was brought to intimidate and punish board...
Readers of CCR’s blog know that a series of state bills have popped up across the country , seeking to punish individuals, companies, and organizations that participate in Boycott, Divestment, and...
