The law violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, judge rules December 3, 2025 – A federal judge permanently enjoined a portion of a Georgia law banning gender...
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, and have long worked with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions to not only reflect the...
Updated: August 26, 2021
May 6, 2011, Washington, DC - Following a chorus of growing criticism over the President's Secure Communities (S-Comm) policy, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus delivered a letter to the White House...
June 17, 2011, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network (DWN), Rights Working Group (RWG), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National...
21 فبراير/شباط 2012، نيويورك – اليوم، طلب مركز الحقوق الدستورية من وزارة العدل الأمريكية فتح تحقيق جنائي فوري في ادعاءات ارتكاب أعمال تعذيب في ظل حكم الرئيس اليمني السابق علي عبد الله صالح...
October 31, 2022Along with the Center for Justice and International Law, we took up the issue before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
December 31, 2018Louisiana Sheriff Must Release Documents About Employees' Travel and Activities at Standing Rock We have exciting news in our ongoing efforts to provide legal support to activists and communities...
On February 2, 2023, Majid Khan was transferred to Belize. He is the first of the prisoners transferred from secret CIA detention to Guantánamo in September 2006 to be released, and the first third-...
Updated: February 4, 2023
Michelle J. DePass, Oregon, is the president and chief executive officer of Meyer Memorial Trust. DePass began her career as a community organizer in New York and went onto leadership positions in...
Justices to Decide Whether FBI Agents Who Abused List to Coerce Can Be Held Accountable October 6, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys for American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly...
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