On Monday, May 3rd, at 12:00 p.m. EST, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a dynamic conversation on our Instagram Live reflecting on the first 100 days of President Biden's...
Updated: April 29, 2021
The overlapping crises facing our global community are the result of generations of political decisions. And while we must collectively uproot oppressive ideologies and institutions, President Joe...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 10, 2021Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
Please join Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as he participates in this teach-in to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Updated: August 26, 2021
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate in a town hall organized by the Project On Government Oversight . Twenty years on, the repercussions of 9/11 are still felt...
Updated: September 10, 2021
September 13, 2021It was one of those unseasonably warm winter days that makes you fear for the future of the planet. Three lawyers were sitting at a conference table in the lower Manhattan offices of the Center for...
September 8, 2021... The U.S. government reaction to 9/11 was “not just a series of haphazard policies or incidental responses, but a profound ideological construct that affected our entire political and legal...
September 6, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights courageously challenged the detentions of “enemy combatants” at Guántanamo Bay. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International argued for accountability for...
September 1, 2021...“We proceeded with our damages claims against the individual F.B.I. agents seeking to remedy the harms they experienced as a result of these abuses,” says Diala Shamas, a staff attorney with the...
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