January 11, 2010, Washington, D.C. – To mark the beginning of the ninth year of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo today, activists and lawyers of detained men held a rally...
November 27, 2018In St. Martin Parish, testimony in the 16 th Judicial District Court continues in the Bayou Bridge eminent domain lawsuit. A spokesperson for Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the pipeline...
Please join CCR to pack the courtroom for trial in our landmark case challenging the New York City Police Department’s practice of unlawful stops and frisks, Floyd et al. v. the City of New...
Updated: May 29, 2013
Fact sheet on Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a case filed in April 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with the 9/11...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 2009A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush...
December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
October 8, 2010, New York – The Center For Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a brief in federal court responding to the Obama administration's...
Administration implementing Trump’s executive order while concealing information about effort February 6, 2025, New York – Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to...
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out “targeted...
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