December 2008In response to Attorney General Mukasey's statements that Bush administration officials who approved the use of torture shouldn’t be prosecuted and needn’t be pardoned because they all reasonably...
March 2015Police reform advocates expressed cautious optimism this week over a new set of guidelines for when New York City police officers can stop and frisk people on the street, a reform aimed at reining in...
This tool provides step-by-step guidance for using your state's open records process for advocacy on issues that affect immigrants in your communities. Published by Catholic Legal Immigration Network...
Updated: January 30, 2020
Temporary restraining order seeks to safeguard rights during October 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth September 29, 2023 – Today, a group of trans and non-binary people asked a federal court...
September 13, 2012, New York - Since the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) filed a formal request for an investigation one year ago to the...
Please join New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and other police accountability movement leaders at Cardozo Law School, on Monday, January 27, at 6:30 p.m. for a critical community event on...
Updated: January 24, 2014
On Thursday, March 12, 2015, CCR, along with Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to the...
Updated: March 16, 2015
September 27, 2021Twenty years after the U.S. declared its “War on Terror,” civil rights lawyers and advocates sent the Biden administration a memorandum covering a range of federal policies and programs,
September 8, 2023, New York – In response to the Georgia attorney general’s sweeping RICO charges targeting Stop Cop City/ Defend the Atlanta Forest activists , the Center for Constitutional Rights...
June 14, 2016Last night, on what would have been his 73rd birthday, nearly 1000 people turned out to commemorate CCR's late President Emeritus Michael Ratner. Executive Director Vince Warren, among two dozen...
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