ICE and other agencies illegally use scans to hold children in adult detention; discredited practice smacks of race science, groups say September 5, 2024, New York, NY – Rights groups and a directly...
Biden, Blinken, and Austin claim “foreign policy” decisions are exempt from judicial review; legal team argues in appeal reply brief submitted today that aiding and abetting genocide can never be a...
September 2, 2015On Tuesday, 10 California inmates succeeded in stopping the decades-long use of indefinite solitary confinement in the state's prison system. In a landmark settlement to a class-action suit they...
September 1, 2015Prison officials, civil rights organizations, former guards and gang members have expressed widespread support of a legal settlement between the state of California and Pelican Bay state prison that...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with Amnesty International on a pre-release screening of The Report , a feature film that brings to life the story behind the...
Updated: October 28, 2019
January 11, 2012, Washington, DC – Today, on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first detained men at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional...
August 23, 2017This piece is part of a debate package written for In These Times ' September issue . The print version went to press before the recent white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., but here...
July 31, 2020...The New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement that the "militarized attacks on cities and protesters are symptoms of a rising and desperate authoritarianism from an...
January 5, 2011, New York and Phoenix – Attorneys representing lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) were in court late yesterday seeking...
December 19, 2016On January 18, 2017, CCR will argue the last case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during Obama’s presidency, Ziglar v. Abbasi , which by the time it is decided may become the most important...
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