March 2009A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged...
October 2009A federal appeals panel heard arguments in CCR's case, Wilner v. National Security Agency . The CCR argued for a reversal of the decision dismissing the CCR's Freedom of Information Request regarding...
November 2009The CCR filed a lawsuit on behalf of the community group Acorn, charging that the Congressional Resolution to bar federal funding for the group is unconstitutional because it constitutes a...
February 2010Ralph D. Fertig, a 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, says he would like to help a militant Kurdish group in Turkey find peaceful ways to achieve its goals. But he fears prosecution under a law banning...
Activists released Homeland Security documents suggesting a majority of immigrants deported after being booked at county jails had no criminal background.
October 2012The battle for greater access to court martial proceedings against alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning trial went before the military’s highest court Wednesday, with groups and...
February 2012Shayana Kadidal, the senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks with Homeland Security NewsWire’s executive editor Eugene K. Chow; Kadidal discusses the legal...
April 2014The city has disbanded an New York City Police Department surveillance division created to spy on Muslim communities. The Demographics Unit kept tabs on Muslims by having plainclothes officers...
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