The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights is a collection of more than one hundred civil rights organizations and individuals who came together to ensure that the courts protect and preserve justice, fairness, and opportunity for everyone.
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- Connecticut v. American Electric Power 12:51pm Nov 16
- Despite the Fine Print, the Courts in Washington State Are Open! 9:32am Nov 12
- Protect the Victim, Not the Aggressor 9:56am Nov 11
Tricia Perry of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights spoke with Bruce Myers, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute, about the recent decision in the Connecticut v. American Electric Power case. Listen in as Myers talks about how...
By Paula Z. Segal When you buy a computer or any other complicated piece of consumer electronics, you also receive a bundle of infinitesimally small print type, that many of us all too often skip reading. Some of that small...
In 2002, the CIA came to suspect 39-year-old Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher Arar of having ties to Al-Qaeda. The CIA convinced the Canadian government to share information on Arar's whereabouts. While Arar was returning home to Canada from a vacation...
African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and women are still grossly underrepresented among our nation's firefighters. As a report of the International Association of Firefighters Union recently put it, diversity among firefighters is important for a number of reasons, "most fire...
The state of California recently descended into such financial difficulties that British paper The Guardian questioned whether it might prove to be the first failed US state: “Desperate to pay off a crippling budget deficit, California is slashing spending in...
By Naoma Nagahawatte, NCRCR Director More than 40 years after the passage of milestone civil rights legislation in the US, an ugly vestige of the Jim Crow era emerged last week in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Keith Bardwell - a parish...
In light of the Franken Amendment currently pending in Congress, we thought it timely to re-post our earlier commentary on Jamie Leigh Jones' lack of access to the justice system. When first accepting employment with KBR/Halliburton, Jones had been forced...
Tricia Perry of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights spoke with ACLU attorneys Elizabeth Alexander and Amy Fettig about the recent ruling in the Nelson v. Norris Supreme Court case. Listen in as Alexander and Fettig discuss the fight...
By Brendon Fleming Nearly 20 years ago, Ali Samantar left his native Somalia, then a country tumbling deeper and deeper into chaos. After years as a general in the Somali army, as defense minister, and finally as prime minister, Samantar...
Every so often, we at NCRCR like to take a break from troublesome legal trends to celebrate the ways in which the courts help to protect our rights. One such victory was recently handed down by an appeals court on...
by Koert Wehberg In February 2007, Lilliann Williams-Jackson, an elementary school counselor in Washington, DC, was called to serve as a juror in a death penalty case. A person’s life hung in the balance and Williams -Jackson took her obligation...
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Tricia Perry of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights spoke with legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky about the recent re-argument of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case in the Supreme Court. Listen in as Chemerinsky explains the potential...
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the west coast recently ruled that the Bush Administration’s use of material witness law to detain suspects without charge for indefinite periods of time after Sept. 11 was ''repugnant to the Constitution and...
This week saw an important victory in the courts for the civil rights of people with psychiatric disabilities. A federal judge ruled that New York State has violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by warehousing more than 4,300 people with...
