November 15, 2017US Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota, Betty McCollum has introduced legislation that would require the US Secretary of State to certify that no part of the annual US military aid package to...
December 5, 2017The US supreme court ruled on Monday that a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and two other countries could be immediately imposed while multiple court cases...
Vince Warren , CCR's Executive Director, and Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers Law School - Newark, will discuss the importance of Rutgers’ 50 year-old Minority Student Program (MSP) to the...
Updated: April 10, 2018
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will argue that the government should release an unredacted copy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) " Race Paper ," in our case, Color of Change v. DHS...
Updated: May 16, 2018
Dismayed by Hypocrisy of Lawmakers in Congressional Progressive Caucus July 23, 2019, New York, Washington, D.C. – In response to the passage of House Resolution 246, the Center for Constitutional...
August 21, 2019... In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: "This is a long overdue modicum of justice for Eric Garner’s family, five years after Mr. Garner’s unjust killing. Now the NYPD must...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Katherine Gallagher , at Panel V of the Nuremberg Forum 2019 as she chairs the discussion on Combating Impunity through Universal...
Updated: September 6, 2019
December 11, 2020...Last week, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for...
September 11, 2021...Advocates have called on Biden to consider alternatives to commission trials, including plea deals that could give prisoners credit for time served. Already, one prisoner, Majid Khan, is set to be...
October 8, 2021... On the 20th anniversary of the official launch of the so-called "Global War on Terror," a coalition of progressive advocacy groups on Monday demanded that U.S. President Joe Biden finally shut...
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