...Fear that authorities use digital tools to aggressively monitor political demonstrations began before Trump's election. Two activist groups, the Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional...
Attorneys Say Report by Monitor Overseeing Reforms Misleads June 7, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a court filing highlighting ongoing racial disparities...
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a decision that puts a crimp in the investigation schedule of special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller III. Mueller, leading...
An analysis filed by a court-appointed NYPD monitor on May 30 determined stops had dropped dramatically in recent years — but that racial disparities persist with regard to who's stopped. The federal...
Attorneys and statistical experts refuted a recent court-appointed monitor’s report on the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying Wednesday that it misrepresented and...
It also shows blacks are more likely than whites to get frisked, but less likely than whites to have a weapon on them when it happens. "I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in...
Ever since the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy was ruled unconstitutional back in 2013, the city's been trying to shrink the number of stops officers make and avoid...
More than 15 years after allowing sweeping post-9/11 detentions, the government officials who implemented the policies are off the hook. Top officials in the Bush administration, including former...
The supreme court on Monday handed a victory to George W Bush’s attorney general, FBI chief and other officials, ruling they cannot be sued over the treatment of detainees, mainly Muslims, who were...
The Supreme Court ruled former high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, could not be held...