CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will speak on Civil Liberties vs. National Security in Phoenix on November 6th. Constitutional and civil rights developments in the U.S. since 9/11 have had...
Updated: October 20, 2014
CCR client and former Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz will speak on a panel of leaders who represent communities directly impacted by U.S. actions and policies that amount to torture, abuse and...
Updated: November 7, 2014
Please join CCR for oral arguments in Hassan v. the City of New York on Tuesday, January 13th at 10:00 am in Philadelphia, PA. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over whether...
Updated: December 19, 2014
Could Rosa Parks, who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for violating segregation laws by sitting in the white-only section of a bus and refusing to move, be considered a “homegrown...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Post-9/11, the Bush administration has expanded the use of the state secrets privilege (SSP) to withhold evidence and dismiss cases that challenge the administration in U.S. courts. In doing so, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
The NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey Download the factsheet on the NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey (updated Feb. 2015) here . What is the NYPD...
Updated: March 4, 2016
March 2006Editorial piece accusing Bush of overstepping his boundaries of executive power and engaging in unchecked wiretapping without the approval from Congress
January 2006Two groups claim domestic spying program violated privacy
May 2006Federal magistrate in Brooklyn ruled that lawyers defending Ashcroft and other top officials must answer the question of whether or not the U.S. trial team and likely witnesses were aware of secret...
July 2006On behalf of the Bush administration, the Justice Department claims that efforts to challenge the US domestic wiretapping program constitutes a threat to national security.
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