February 2, 2017Today marks the five-year anniversary since NYPD officer Richard Haste killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham in his Bronx home. The five-day departmental trial of Officer Haste wrapped up last week, and...
Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along...
Updated: February 7, 2017
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
February 22, 2017... Darius Charney, a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney who brought the case in New York, said he expects civil society groups to start intervening in Obama-era police reform agreements if...
Please join CCR, the Immigration Defense Project , and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability...
Updated: March 2, 2017
March 1, 2017A federal appeals court in Manhattan heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by three Muslim men who claim the FBI violated their constitutional rights by placing them on the government's no-fly...
March 2, 2017With the no-fly list’s processes already found unconstitutional, judges on the Second Circuit argued Wednesday over whether FBI agents who used it to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should...
March 1, 2017FBI agents who allegedly tried coercing several American Muslims to inform on their communities shouldn't be held liable — because that could discourage people from becoming cops, a federal attorney...
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
March 13, 2017In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi , a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02, senior staff attorney at the Center...
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