Last week, we went to court with ArchCity Defenders and co-counsel to challenge St. Louis County’s unconstitutional "Wanted" system to certify a plaintiff class of thousands of people who’ve been...
June 12, 2015, Champaign, IL – Today, a federal judge ordered the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) to release emails regarding UIUC’s firing of tenured professor Steven Salaita over...
December 14, 2009 —Today, the United States Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by four British former detainees against Donald Rumsfeld and senior...
Guantánamo: there have to be limits, detainees must be released [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Wednesday, we argued before a federal judge in Washington D.C. to challenge Donald Trump's...
Prisoners, Some Near-Death, File Urgent Petition for Release from “Ticking Timebomb” Detention Centers April 1, 2020, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National...
Please note that some of the links below lead to photographs and other content that contain images and descriptions of torture and other abuse. Sixteen years ago today , CBS 60 Minutes II broke the...
December 10, 2007, Washington, DC – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued the appeal of CCR’s class-action civil case charging a former Israeli official with war crimes and...
November 24, 2009, New York – A group of former McCarthy era blacklist victims filed a friend-of-court brief in a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Supreme Court case yesterday, arguing...
July 30, 2014, New York – Today, federal District Judge Analisa Torres rejected the attempts of several police unions to intervene in Floyd v. City of New York , the landmark stop-and-frisk...
