June 21, 2016, New York – Today, human rights and civil liberties groups filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents relating to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent executive order...
On May 18, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the National Lawyers Guild in sending a letter to members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor...
Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement in Response to Intensified Attacks Against Al-Haq March 7, 2016, New York – In response to reports from our allies at the Palestinian human rights...
Plaintiff Rahinah Ibrahim is a Muslim woman and a citizen of Malaysia who was a doctoral student at Stanford University writing her thesis on affordable housing. She has neither a criminal record nor...
Archilla v. Witte is a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on behalf of 18 medically vulnerable people currently held in ICE’s Etowah Detention Center in...
... But stop and frisks have increased dramatically under Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, whom he appointed in December. Police recorded 4,116 stop-and-frisks in the second quarter of...
October 22, 2019, Lacey, WA – Today, human rights lawyers urged a Washington appeals court to uphold a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit against former volunteer board members of the Olympia Food Co-op...
April 10, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement on the accountability of top Bush administration officials for the U.S. government...
January 8, 2013, New York – In response to today’s decision by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York finding that NYPD trespass stops...
"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
