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November 6, 2026
On Thursday, October 15, 2026, 500 friends, supporters, movement partners, and staff of the Center for Constitutional Rights gathered in Brooklyn, NY for A Splendid Body of Tigerish People: 60 Years of CCR. (Fun fact : The phrase "a splendid body of tigerish people" is a quote attributed to radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, who wrote it to describe our organization’s staff, donors, and movement partners.) At the event, many tigerish people celebrated six decades of working side by side with communities standing up to oppression and struggling for liberation. Sixty years of fighting for...
March 20, 2017
This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Lynne Stewart and her partner, Ralph Poynter
March 8, 2017
We salute Lynne Stewart, longtime friend of CCR, who was the very definition of a people's lawyer and who passed away yesterday. We send our love and condolences to her partner Ralph Poynter, who was...
Letters from Detention
January 27, 2017
Last night, CCR and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC , in association with The Public Theater's Public Forum , hosted an evening of storytelling and conversation about CCR’s Supreme...
Mike Pompeo
January 13, 2017
Congressman Mike Pompeo is ill-suited to be CIA director. His résumé is impressive: West Point valedictorian, Army officer, Harvard Law graduate, successful businessman, and a multi-term congressman...