...“I lost my highest paying job,” she said. “I lost my car, both that I needed to take care of my children.” The lawsuit also alleges the fines and fees collected from the traffic tickets act as...
... J. Wells Dixon , a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Huff Post that the treatment of the lawyers was in stark contrast to that of white police officers accused...
...More than 100 human rights groups have signed a joint letter asking progressive organisations to stop working with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish-American rights organisation founded...
... Rafaela Uribe , Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, added: "The sanctuary leaders and families at the helm of this case have lived in uncertainty and fear for too long...
...The planned town halls will culminate in a report that will be submitted to the New York City Council in March to inform the Council’s consideration of the reform proposal. Co-sponsors involved in...
... “The focus of civil rights organizations should be on critiquing state power and not about targeting those who critique state power,” said Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for...
..."Its place is in a broader conversation on decarceration and how the government uses money in what is a deeply flawed legal system. It should be part of a bigger conversation on civil rights and...
... “I don't see what there is to review. This executive order needs to be rescinded now. It needed to be rescinded a month ago,” said Katherine Gallagher , a lawyer with the Center for...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which filed the lawsuit on Diamond’s behalf, applauded the Justice Department filing. “In essence, the DOJ confirms that...
...“Palestinian and Muslim political speech is often smeared as ‘extremist,’ or hateful via the overbroad definition of the anti-Semitism label, and the ADL has been at the helm of some of those...
