CCR President Michael Ratner participates in panel examining the cultural and political legacy of the al-Qaida attacks and the US response in the decade since.
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed two appeals to the Army and may file additional appeals in an attempt to gain access to the closed-door sessions in the Manning case.
Revelations that the National Security Agency is collecting data, "on an ongoing, daily basis," on all domestic and foreign telephone calls made by Verizon customers should absolutely...
Today, amid all the other news about the government’s vast surveillance network, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California dismissed a case brought seven years ago against the National...
by Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney There is something very wrong with this picture: Today I am in a federal court arguing that the press and public have a right to...
Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey...
Now we know who’s to blame for any harm the police cause by secretly spying on Muslims. It’s not the officers who infiltrate religious groups and monitor their activities in hopes of...
Religious profiling is okay, as long as you have a really good reason. That’s the logic behind a decision reached by federal judge William Martini Thursday, in dismissing a lawsuit against New...
"As Black History Month comes to a close, a federal judge last week dismissed a major civil rights lawsuit that affects millions of African-Americans. I joined as a plaintiff on Hassan et al. vs...
What has now become a national story is the Associated Press's month-long investigations, including internal NYPD documents, that reveal the extent to which Ray Kelly's Intelligence Division in...
