Stop-and-frisk abuses and other abusive NYPD practices over the past few decades resulted in a federal court ordering that changes be developed with community input, as the result of several class...
Updated: November 18, 2016
November 17, 2016..."Until the rise of Trumpism, it had been universally recognized that Japanese internment was one of the most shameful episodes in our country's history, yet in this new era it is becoming an...
November 15, 2016...“The Supreme Court unequivocally declared this kind of “sodomy” statute unconstitutional thirteen years ago…[when it ruled that the] mere existence of sodomy statutes is an invitation to subject...
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
November 15, 2016...When Ben and I returned to New York, we worked with Pardiss Kebriaei and Maria LaHood at the Center for Constitutional Rights to develop a challenge to the lawfulness of the government’s kill...
November 14, 2016The stunning upset election of Donald Trump has left many Americans wondering what has become of their country, their party, their government, even their sense of the world. Purple prose has been...
November 14, 2016...The 28-year-old transgender woman was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years for releasing a trove of government and military documents to WikiLeaks . Through those leaks , the Center for Constitutional...
November 7, 2016Anti-homosexuality Evangelist pastor Scott Lively has requested a judge toss out a "crimes against humanity" case against him before it can reach federal court. The lawsuit, which Lively has called "...
November 7, 2016Scott Lively, the US pastor accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ while preaching homophobia in Uganda, is trying in a last-ditch effort to stop the lawsuit. The minister has repeatedly attempted to...
Deeper investment in police forces in communities will amplify the racial divide says, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren . Trouble seeing the video? Watch ig on...
Updated: November 21, 2016
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