Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the Algerian prisoner, said the Obama administration's instinct to fight off legal challenges...
Two judges have now struck down Donald Trump's second attempt at banning Muslims from a handful of countries to enter the United States. A federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order...
...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
Meriam Haider is the Receptionist, Administrative Assistant at the Center for Constitutional Rights, handling front-office reception and clerical duties. She works with the Operations team to ensure...
...Awad applied for club status in November 2015, but he and other students faced delays and questioning about their politics, including their use of the term “apartheid” and support for a boycott...
...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
..."Its place is in a broader conversation on decarceration and how the government uses money in what is a deeply flawed legal system. It should be part of a bigger conversation on civil rights and...
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In...
New Yorkers have expressed their displeasure with the excessive use of stop-and-frisk by the Bloomberg administration. Voters were moved by this issue in the recent citywide election, a federal court...
