July 3, 2017SCOTUS on CCR CASE Just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush administration officials may be sued for their roles in the post-9/11...
Oct. 14 strike that killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo is part of an unprecedented bombing campaign in the Caribbean January 27, 2026, Boston – Today, family members of two Trinidadian men killed...
November 7, 2024, New York – In response to a military commission’s ruling that Defense Secretary Austin cannot rescind the plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other 9/11 defendants, the...
CCR was born out of dissent. Growing directly out of Civil Rights struggles in the South, we have consistently worked to protect the right to dissent, not simply as an individual liberty but as the...
Updated: August 16, 2017
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights to hear oral arguments on a motion to dismiss in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a CCR lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and...
Updated: March 15, 2018
ATS case bringing claims that U.S. technology company Cisco Systems, Inc. aided and abetted serious human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China
Updated: April 29, 2026
April 2, 2021...A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that targeted a Palestinian rights organization for alleged terror connections. In 2019 the Jewish National Fund (JNF), and 12 American citizens living in...
Since the 1970s, combating sexual and gender-based violence has been an integral part of CCR’s mission. We fought for recognition of the right to self-defense for victims of domestic violence,...
Updated: March 8, 2017
CCR has tenaciously challenged discriminatory policing for decades, recognizing that discrimination and police violence do not arise as isolated incidents but are deeply embedded within our criminal...
Updated: September 26, 2017
CCR has been fighting for racial justice since our first day. We organized legal support for and defended marchers who were arrested on the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965; litigated...
Updated: September 26, 2017
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