by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
By Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet...
Back in June, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed a stinging rebuke to the federal government and a significant victory to CCR and our clients in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case we brought over...
At the end of Spotlight , a list of hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world in which major cases of clergy sexual violence have been uncovered fills up the screen. You can literally hear...
January 24, 2020, Bergen County – Today, a New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of the Ramapo Hunt & Polo Club homeowners’ association, to dismantle a settlement...
FILED: We're suing to block the three latest public charge rules [caption align="right"] [/caption] We filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Tuesday...
Join us for a virtual Freedom Flicks screening and Q&A of "Advocate" (2019) [caption align="right"] [/caption] We're excited to announce that we are going virtual with our next Freedom Flicks...
Law likely unconstitutional, judge says, ruling on class action lawsuit brought by trans people in Georgia prisons September 4, 2025, Atlanta – A federal judge today preliminarily blocked a Georgia...
Article discussing of Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as allegedly helping to plan the US embassy bombing in Tanzania during 1998, and the details and problems of using military tribunals to hear...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed two appeals to the Army and may file additional appeals in an attempt to gain access to the closed-door sessions in the Manning case.
