August 2012New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began...
What does fur have to do with terrorism? The federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) criminalizes a wide swath of First Amendment-protected advocacy and protest activity by animal rights...
Updated: June 1, 2015
The University of Dayton is hosting the biennial conference The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy on October 1-3, 2015. This three-day conference will...
Updated: September 9, 2015
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on March 7 for our monthly vigil. The NSJ campaign seeks to raise awareness around human rights and civil rights...
Updated: March 3, 2016
July 7, 2016New Yorkers should visit nypdbodycameras.org now and take advantage of this rare opportunity to give input on not only how we are policed, but on how we will literally be watched. Body-worn cameras...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a distinguished panel titled, "How Can Strategic Litigation Deliver Transformative Change? International Perspectives." The panel is part of a larger three-day...
Updated: October 7, 2016
Noor Zafar is a Bertha Justice Fellow in the Guantanamo docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Noor earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as co-president of the Muslim...
July 12, 2017Immigration advocates and lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, arguing that CBP officers at crossings...
July 24, 2017In response to a lawsuit claiming that hundreds of asylum seekers were illegally turned away at San Diego ports of entry, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D.-Calif., has asked Homeland Security Secretary John...
November 28, 2018...The plaintiffs in that case are making three First Amendment arguments, explained Angelo Guisado, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who is involved with the lawsuit. The...
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