March 8, 2010, New York – Friday, six (6) amicus curiae briefs were filed with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...
May 2012On Friday, May 11, 2012, a federal appellate court ruled that private military contractors allegedly complicit in torture at Abu Ghraib aren’t immune from prosecution. In post 9/11 America,...
ICE officials treated deportation as sport February 6, 2023, New York and Atlanta – U.S. government officials expressed racist attitudes toward Black migrants, treated their deportation as sport, and...
CCR is pleased to announce Senior Attorney Shane Kadidal will speak at the 2012 Constitution Day event at Ithaca College. C onstitution Day commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution, and will...
Updated: September 19, 2012
December 17, 2009, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked a federal judge to amend her decision granting an injunction against Congress’ unconstitutional de-...
Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), is now seeking to develop a 162-mile pipeline in Louisiana. ETP contracts with private security corporations to...
Updated: March 29, 2018
On the 19 th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks with photographer Ariana Faye Allensworth and map maker and interactive media developer Sam Raby of the...
Updated: October 10, 2019
Our client, a man from Central Asia who is seeking asylum in the U.S. after opposing political corruption in his home country, has been detained for over one year at Stewart Detention Center, an...
Updated: January 8, 2025
July 16, 2020, New York/Chicago — On Thursday, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of...
September 14, 2017, New York – In response to the NYPD releasing the first-ever body camera footage of a fatal police shooting, of Miguel Richards in the Bronx on September 6, the Center for...
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