CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join a panel organized by the Black Studies Program at City College of New York (CCNY). The panel will concentrate on the various ways that the Black...
Updated: February 7, 2017
February 7, 2017...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the...
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
March 8, 2017We salute Lynne Stewart, longtime friend of CCR, who was the very definition of a people's lawyer and who passed away yesterday. We send our love and condolences to her partner Ralph Poynter, who was...
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will discuss CCR’s history challenging abusive immigration practices; religious and racial profiling; attacks on dissent; and the current political climate and...
Updated: March 20, 2017
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to address the Muslim Ban as well as surveillance, profiling, travel restrictions, registries, and more practices that existed long before Trump...
Updated: March 30, 2017
April 27, 2017...Take, for example, a lawsuit announced yesterday by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal, legal organizations that deal with progressive issues and with Palestinian advocacy,...
April 26, 2017With representation by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel civil rights and constitutional lawyer Alan Levine, four Fordham students have sued the...
April 27, 2017Four Fordham undergraduates filed a lawsuit accusing the university of viewpoint discrimination over its decision to reject their application to form a local chapter of Students for Justice in...
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist Mike Rufo will be playing a one-hour set of his music to benefit CCR and Defending Rights...
Updated: May 18, 2017
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