March 18, 2016On Tuesday, March 15, CCR Senior Staff Attorney argued before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in CCR's case challenging Communication Management Units in federal prisons. Check out her vlog...
March 29, 2009, New York – According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), yesterday’s announcement that a Spanish judge has initiated a criminal investigation into the actions of John Yoo...
February 23, 2016, New York – In response to the release of President Obama’s new plan to close Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: This is not a plan to...
April 2008After all three NYPD officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell were acquitted, many organizations, including CCR and Peoples' Justice (www.peoplesjustice.org) called for significant changes to the...
March 2012In a correspondence between Jack Goldsmith and CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy, Professor Goldsmith credits Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights for initiating—and consistently...
September 22, 2016CCR Executive Director talks about stop and frisk on All In With Chris Hayes.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter (NLG-NYC) sent New York Assembly Members a letter urging them to oppose pending legislation that would...
Updated: January 31, 2014
December 8, 2008, New York – This week, the Coalition to Abolish the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act launched a campaign to repeal the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act (AETA), a law that broadens the...
October 21, 2015This week, Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the South Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and CAIR Florida sent a letter to Florida State Senators urging them to...
Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port au Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the ground as well--surrounded...
Updated: January 29, 2010
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