September 27, 2016Among the senseless beatings inflicted on reality during the presidential debate on Monday night was the discussion of New York City’s stop-and-frisk tactics. Donald J. Trump attributed a nonexistent...
January 22, 2017Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the Algerian prisoner, said the Obama administration's instinct to fight off legal challenges...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Britney Wilson will join a panel discussion as part of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's public interest week. The conversation will be alongside other UPenn Law...
Updated: February 24, 2017
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a panel discussion to address the migration issues in America under the Trump administration. For more information about the event, visit the MIT Center for...
Updated: February 24, 2017
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a distinguished panel featuring the ACLU's Anthony Romero, Amnesty USA's Margaret Huang, and moderated by Professor Radhika Balakrishnan. The discussion...
Updated: March 21, 2017
Two judges have now struck down Donald Trump's second attempt at banning Muslims from a handful of countries to enter the United States. A federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order...
Updated: March 22, 2017
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a distinguished panel to discuss the multi-layered effort to protect civil rights that has developed as a result of the new administration's policies...
Updated: May 5, 2017
Ani Cordero , notable for her contributions to world music, Latin folk, and indie rock, launches her most pointed and urgent work to date, Querido Mundo (Dear World), a record of all-original protest...
Updated: August 16, 2017
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 11, 2018...“It’s clear that a man who thinks we should water-board terror suspects even if it doesn’t work, because ‘they deserve it, anyway,’ has no qualms about keeping every last detainee in Guantánamo,...
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