January 18, 2018, New York – As a result of the legal challenge to Trump’s policy of discriminatory, indefinite detention filed last week by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel...
Courts, Not Trump, Will Decide Fate of Prisoners, Attorneys Say January 30, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s statement in tonight’s State of the Union address that he is issuing an executive...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel asked a federal judge to order the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to comply with
Activism Needed to Remedy Solitary Conditions in Prisons, Civil Rights Attorneys Say March 28, 2018, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal judge declined to order the California Department of Corrections...
May 2, 2018, New York – In response to news that the first detainee has been transferred out of Guantánamo under Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are...
May 14, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: Israel’s state violence against Palestinians must end. Today Israel continued its campaign of...
Cohort will be working in the Legal and Communications Departments July 17, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed 14 interns this summer: 12 are in the Ella Baker Summer...
August 3, 2018, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was granted official special consultative status last week with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC...
August 3, 2018, North Dakota – Today, a federal judge blocked Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, from continuing a lawsuit against Earth First!. ETP...
August 15, 2018, New York – In the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing widespread sexual violence across the state and cover-up by senior leaders of the Catholic Church in...