January 23, 2007, New York - Authorities in San Francisco announced the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of police officer Sgt. John V. Young despite the use of...
September 2, 2015Solitary confinement may be activists’ most successful battlefront in the growing war against mass incarceration. They scored another victory on Tuesday when they reached a “far-reaching settlement”...
November 4, 2025Longtime Center for Constitutional Rights ally and mentor Peter Weiss passed away on November 3, 2025, just short of his 100th birthday. Here we re-post this tribute from his 90th: International...
Southern Justice Rising represents the Center for Constitutional Rights’ deepened, renewed institutional commitment to liberatory movements in the South.
Updated: October 27, 2025
September 2014Activists Press Challenge Over 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism' Law Jamie Schuman , Supreme Court Brief September 3, 2014 A First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is now before...
As the Obama administration accelerates the transfer of men from Guantánamo, the closing of the infamous prison looks to be on the horizon. Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells...
Updated: January 21, 2016
February 28, 2014, New York – In response to news that the Obama Administration is debating whether to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen terrorism suspect in Pakistan, whose name,...
Please join CCR for a conversation about Guantánamo, art, and activism to celebrate the launch of conceptual documentary artist Debi Cornwall's new book, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo...
Updated: October 17, 2017
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to take on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Mohamud v. United States is one of the first...
Updated: August 16, 2017
December 3, 2018Dispatches from the Border [caption align="right"] [/caption] Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado have been at the southern border,...
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