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CCR in the News
May 28, 2020
Blog Post
In the wake of a slew of incidents of anti-Black violence, it is more apparent than ever that especially during a pandemic our Black lives don’t matter. Just this week, George Floyd was killed after being profiled and brutalized by a white officer in Minneapolis. In an instant, the officer acted as...
CCR Blog
May 27, 2020
Blog Post
Trump's public charge rules will only exacerbate the coronavirus health crisis Last week, we joined New York State Attorney General Letitia James arguing (via videostream) before a federal district court judge in three related lawsuits challenging several Trump administration public charge rules,...
CCR Blog
May 14, 2020
CCR in the News
...What’s clear from the notorious death squad leader’s history with the U.S. and its own court system is that many influential people in several of our alphabet agencies do not want Constant on trial in any courtroom. The first time Constant’s ties to U.S. intelligence became a problem was the...
May 22, 2020
CCR in the News
... Rachel Meeropol, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights also representing the class, tells The Progressive that prison officials informed her that they had “taken some steps to improve their use of confidential information” under the extension. “But we are continuing to...
May 22, 2020
CCR in the News
... The Center for Constitutional Rights in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda, a Ugandan LGBTQ advocacy group, against Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor from Massachusetts. ... Read the full piece here .