...“Given the NYPD’s policing history,” says executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Vince Warren, “one’s past criminal history can reflect bad policing as much as it reflects...
It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
Today, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration officials...
Accountability for Racial, Religious Profiling Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency, Attorneys Say January 18, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, in the last case heard during the Obama administration,...
Today (January 18), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a major religious and ethnic profiling case . The central legal question in Ziglar is whether high-...
Fifteen years ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was swept up with lots of other Muslim, Arab and South Asian men, held in immigration detention for months in isolation, beaten and harassed. I later...
In the last day of U.S. Supreme Court arguments under the Obama administration, Muslim, South Asian and Arab men rounded up in New York after 9/11 asserted Wednesday that unconstitutional national-...
The Supreme Court -- or, rather, two-thirds of it -- will hear a case for the ages today. On the docket: a dispute spanning more than 15 years, in which Muslim non-citizens of Middle Eastern descent...
Yesterday, senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol argued our case Ziglar v. Abbasi before the Supreme Court . By all accounts, it was a masterful presentation, expertly parrying the justices’...
On Wednesday, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
