New York, July 28th – On Monday, August 1, the City of New York will be asked at a trial in federal court in Brooklyn how it intends to remedy its 40-year history of racial discrimination...
August 2010By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
State of New York v. Danny White is a lawsuit challenging New York State’s attempts to evict Mohawk Native Americans from land that had been recognized as theirs in the Treaty of 1784. It also...
Updated: February 11, 2016
July 11, 2018..."Our dangerous experiment in indefinite detention, after 16 years, has run its course," said Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), who argued before Judge...
Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei for a workshop at Yale Law School on U.S. targeted killings on February 19th. Pardiss Kebriaei is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center...
Updated: February 18, 2015
December 20, 2014, New York – In response to the repatriation announced today of four Afghan prisoners, including Shawali Khan, whose case the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has long...
July 13, 2017Abigail’s husband disappeared in May after he refused to let a Central Mexico drug cartel use his tractor-trailer to transport drugs. When she reported his disappearance to Mexico authorities, the...
Court should reject 9/11 families and other victims' bid to access funds
In June 2012, Mayor Edwin Lee of San Francisco, California stated that he was considering implementing a "New York City-style" stop and frisk policy. On August 2, 2012, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: January 7, 2014
March 2014WASHINGTON — An advocacy group representing American military veterans and Iraqi civilians arrived here on Wednesday armed with a message for the United States government: Washington must do...
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