March 5, 2021, New York – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a federal court to deny the Biden administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit over alleged torture under...
November 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to review a Ninth Circuit decision that declared unlawful the U.S. government’s prior...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2020-9/2022. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging...
Updated: February 13, 2020
April 29, 2019Abu Ghraib: Recognizing 15 years since the release of images of Iraqi torture victims April 28 marks fifteen years since media outlets published scores of graphic images depicting egregious human...
May 18, 2026The Feliz family fights for accountability against a system designed to prevent it
June 2008The Supreme Court ruled in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case Boumediene v. Bush that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay may challenge their detention in front of a federal judge, going...
April 2010Hashmi, an American citizen, had become a symbol of what they view as the unfair – and unconstitutional - treatment of Muslims in the post-9/11 world. His case prompted regular vigils outside...
A current and comprehensive list of CCR's press releases, press statements, and case updates dating back to 2003. This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which the...
Updated: October 22, 2007
January 2015Although federal courts have interpreted Washington state’s new anti-SLAPP statute several times, state appellate courts have only just begun to do so, with the first cases making their way to the...
September 1, 2015In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
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