July 29, 2010, New York and Phoenix – This afternoon, CCR Attorney Sunita Patel was arrested as she was carrying out her legal observer duties at a protest of Arizona’s unconstitutional...
March 28, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the announcement that Phil Eure was appointed as the first Inspector...
Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High-Level American War Criminals in Andover, Massachusetts. Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights,...
Updated: September 9, 2008
Please join CCR in Springfield, MA to pack the courtroom for oral argument on Defendant's Motion to Dismiss in our case, Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively . The hearing will begin at 11:00 a.m...
Updated: December 18, 2012
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol for a panel discussion at the 55th Anniversary of the NYU Law Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. The program will begin at 3:00 p.m. with...
Updated: October 22, 2013
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
April 2015" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s...
Updated: May 11, 2016
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
June 29, 2015CCR and SMUG marched together in the New York City LGBTQ Pride parade.
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