March 3, 2011, New York —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantánamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal...
February 13, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova urging her to take concrete action to stop Israel's continued destruction...
Updated: February 13, 2013
On the twelfth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks with educator, organizer, and director of Project NIA Mariame Kaba and journalist, author, and organizer Victoria Law...
Updated: May 9, 2019
Japanese Internment, Warrantless Wiretapping Were Comparable Abuses of Emergency Powers February 15, 2019 , New York – In response to Donald Trump’s invocation today of emergency executive power to...
Call Rule “Cruel, Racist, and Patently Unlawful” August 12, 2019, New York – In response to the Department of Homeland Security’s publication of a new regulation, “Inadmissibility on Public Charge...
Throughout its history, law enforcement has deemed Black activism as a national security threat. Law enforcement has used its powers to chill the speech and movements of Black activists and activism...
Updated: March 7, 2023
April 21, 2026, New York – In response to the Trump Administration’s attack on organizations defending civil rights, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: It must be...
CCR along with the National Lawyer’s Guild, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an amicus brief in the case Alexander v...
April 2, 2021...Human rights and anti-war activists marked the 18th anniversary of the second of three American-led invasions of Iraq by renewing calls for the U.S.—this time the Biden administration—to pay...
Shayana Kadidal is a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, including CCR's challenges to the...
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