February 11, 2013, New York – In response to news that Pope Benedict XVI plans to resign, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the statement below. The Center for Constitutional Rights...
As we look back on the past 20 years since 9/11, certain issues come to the forefront – the toll of the war in Afghanistan; the torture of detainees in CIA custody; the worldwide drone program; the...
Updated: September 24, 2021
Join CCR and City University of New York School of Law’s CLEAR Project for oral argument in Tanvir v. Lynch , our case challenging the FBI’s abuse of the No-Fly List to coerce law-abiding...
Updated: June 8, 2015
January 18, 2016... "It would have been very difficult if not impossible to have litigated this case without the resources that the Weil firm brought to this case," Jules Lobel of the Center for Constitutional...
June 6, 2017The U.S. District Court of Massachusetts may have dismissed a case bought by a Ugandan LGBT rights group against evangelical minister Scott Lively for “crimes against humanity,” but the judge in the...
April 10, 2018We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
On September 14, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) co-counsel argued the appeal of the first case filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the physical...
November 9, 2016, Springfield, MA – Today, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, appeared in court to argue that a federal lawsuit...
June 7, 2019... I would say there was evidence in this case [proving] that these kids did not do it, so it is hard to imagine the amount of energy they had to put into manufacturing a case that wasn’t true...
October 24, 2007, Washington, DC – According to press reports, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted during a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing today that the U.S. government...
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