The recent Boston marathon bombing prompts us to examine the friction between the war on terror and the rule of law, including due process rights, rights of free speech and assembly, and protections...
Updated: July 31, 2014
The full-time (40 hours per week) Advocacy Administrative Associate will be responsible for supporting the logistical execution of Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Team program and...
Updated: May 1, 2023
While she did not halt the use of stop-and-frisk, Scheindlin appointed a federal court monitor to oversee a series of reforms. The city appealed Scheindlin’s ruling, saying it made officers...
Updated: November 1, 2013
Civil rights and community groups across the country denounce Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano’s plans to expand the highly criticized 287(g) program to eleven...
February 19, 2021We invite you all to continue to educate yourselves around the issues confronting Black communities and to contribute to the leaders who are working to create solutions. This week, our call to action...
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
This year, CCR is going all-in to support the call for a general strike on Monday, May 1 , in solidarity with immigrants and other communities under attack by the Trump administration . Will you join...
Updated: April 26, 2017
As part of its widespread investigation of universities in response to Palestine solidarity organizing, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Northwestern University on...
Updated: April 11, 2025
Introduction There are a number of detained men at Guantánamo from "high-risk" countries where there is a very real danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned...
Updated: February 11, 2014
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