Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
Why would a Berlin-based European human rights organization celebrate CCR’s 50 years of work and dedicate an entire day of their conference to the legacy of Michael Ratner? Because for more than two...
Though it feels like it’s been an eternity already, tomorrow marks Donald Trump’s 100 th day in office. After his inauguration, he wasted no time trying to implement the bigoted, regressive, and...
Men rounded up in post-9/11 sweeps push suit against warden for physical, verbal, religious abuse In a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
Also, Members of Congress, Scholars, NGOs, State Attorneys General File Six Amicus Briefs in Support of Ongoing Lawsuit SAN DIEGO – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Center for...
December 3, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona – Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the...
Filing Follows COVID-19 Outbreaks and Similar Demands for Release Nationwide April 29, 2020, Birmingham, AL – Late yesterday, Adelante Alabama Worker Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and...
On September 14th, Dawn Wooten—a nurse working at a Georgia ICE detention center— blew the whistle on the conditions within the privately-operated Irwin County facility: many of the immigrants...
February 8, 2021, Harrisburg, PA – Death By Incarceration, also known as life without the possibility of parole, is a term coined by a movement of advocates working to end the practice, including...
Local District Attorney Rejects All Criminal Charges for Alleged Violations of ALEC-inspired Anti-Protest Amendments to Critical Infrastructure Law St. Martinville, Louisiana – Sixteen pipeline...
