The Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter this week to Governor Jerry Brown of California advocating for him to sign the "Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools" Act (...
Updated: August 29, 2012
On June 12, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted written testimony before the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate on June 12, 2012 for a hearing Hearing on A...
Updated: September 11, 2012
July 10, 2020 Via electronic submission Committee on Public Safety California State Assembly Re: SB 1064 - SUPPORT Dear Committee Members, We write to share the Center for Constitutional Rights’...
Updated: August 4, 2020
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Updated: April 9, 2018
Court of Appeals STATE OF NEW YORK IN RE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., ON BEHALF OF TOMMY, Petitioner-Appellant, against PATRICK C. LAVERY, individually and as an officer of Circle L Trailer Sales,...
Updated: April 9, 2018
On June 22, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations—released an open letter demanding that Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman be released...
Updated: July 30, 2020
The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the activists enduring mounting state violence and repression as they seek to protect their communities and natural resources from the...
Updated: April 26, 2024
In June 2019, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a letter to the New York State Legislature, calling on them to repeal Civil...
Updated: June 18, 2019
March 23, 2022 The Honorable Dick Durbin Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee The Honorable Chuck Grassley Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Dear Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Grassley: We...
Updated: March 23, 2022
Data for Progress, ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Campaign, Women’s March, and two dozen other organizations release report and united policy platform on decriminalizing sex...
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