CCR Executive Director, Vincent Warren, writes letter to the editor responding to Richard Thompson Ford's op-ed piece "Moving Beyond Civil Rights," originally published October 27, 2011 in...
Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday in Massachusetts challenging the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, saying the controversial...
Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in...
The Florida legislature has dropped a controversial provision that would have made it a crime to photograph or videotape on agricultural facilities without consent.
Sikh and Muslim transit workers in New York City are celebrating the settlement of a federal lawsuit that will allow them to wear turbans on the job, in public and without affixing Metropolitan...
A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday in New Orleans seeks to have nearly 500 people who were convicted of soliciting oral or anal sex for money under Louisiana's "crime against nature by...
CCR Senior Staff Attourney Katherine Gallagher writes about the need to hold former President Bush accountable for acts of torture. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/george-bush-...
A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, all but ending...
Is there anything extremist right-wing preachers won’t blame on LGBT people? After the Newtown shooting, James Dobson listed tolerance of gay marriage as one of the reasons God’s...
