On August 28, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government's request for a 'filter team' to review papers seized from detainees at Guantanamo late yesterday. The...
...A complaint, along with a motion for the TRO, filed on the plaintiffs’ behalf by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Southern Legal Counsel says the ban forces trans, gender-nonconforming,...
On April 26, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of three Black activists who were manhandled and arrested while peacefully and lawfully...
REJECTED! Court says no to Hunt & Polo member's case harassing the Ramapough Lenape Nation [caption align="right"] [/caption] A New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
Justice for Breonna Taylor requires the transformation of the scoeity and system that killed her [caption align="right"] [/caption] In response to the announcement that only one of the officers...
March 13, 2025, El Paso, Texas — Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Texas A&M School of Law Civil Rights Clinic submitted a petition for a writ of...
Mohammed Abushanab fled persecution by the Israeli military in West Bank, only to be incarcerated by ICE in Texas April 15, 2026, Houston – Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker...
Join CCR and allies from Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Bill of Rights Defense...
A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
