Leah Todd (she/they) is a Senior Legal Worker at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues related to gender and LGBTQIA+ justice; prisons and detention; freedom of speech,...
Friday, January 11, 2008 marks six years since the arrival of the first detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today, the detention camp remains a monumental symbol of torture,...
Updated: January 10, 2008
From the height of the Civil Rights movement to the depths of Bush's war on the U.S. Constitution and fundamental human decency, the cases CCR has litigated have made legal history and emboldened...
Updated: November 7, 2008
The Sixteenth Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference. The RebLaw Conference is an annual, student-run conference that brings together practitioners, law students, and community advocates from around...
Updated: February 16, 2010
April 2014Baghdad’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison now stands empty. Its closure, prompted by fears that it could be overrun by Sunni insurgents, along with the transfer of its 2,400 prisoners, was announced last...
March 4, 2015, New York – Esteemed professor and intellectual Dr. Cornel West has cancelled a high-profile lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in support of a...
August 3, 2015, New York – In response to the ruling by a federal judge today striking down Idaho’s “ag-gag” law, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: We applaud...
January 15, 2018Israel’s enablers in the United States ramped up their efforts to shut down the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement known as BDS. Many states including New York have passed laws...
August 27, 2018Federal judge gives green light to lawsuit challenging CBP's turnaways of asylum seekers at the border [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal judge ruled last week that our lawsuit challenging...
Harry Joseph is a resident of Louisiana and pastor of the 114-year-old Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. With a 95 percent African-American population, St. James shoulders...
Updated: May 22, 2019
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