December 11, 2020...Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman in a men’s prison, is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) after she was sexually assaulted more than 14 times. Diamond, represented by the Center...
April 2014In late February, U.S. District Judge William J. Martini found that the New York Police Department hadn’t violated the rights of the New Jersey-based plaintiffs in Hassan v. City of New York, a...
December 9, 2020...Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman in a men’s prison, is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) after she was sexually assaulted more than 14 times. Diamond, represented by the Center...
May 20, 2022...For Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, the revelations are echoes of a covert FBI program from the 1950s to early ’70s, known as Cointelpro, that illegally...
Join us on Thursday, January 16, at 12 p.m. EST , for a seminar and discussion on The Crisis of Public International Law: The Case of Palestine and Impunity for Genocide, featuring Center for...
Updated: January 15, 2025
CCR argues that an appeals court wrongly decided that Congress has the power to forbid federal courts from considering claims by former Guantánamo detainees.
Updated: March 9, 2017
May 15, 2024, New York – In solidarity with Palestinians on Nakba Day, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Today marks Nakba Day, when, 76 years ago, Israel’s ethnic...
April 3, 2020... Recalling similar controversies, such as the attempt to shut down her commencement address, Sarsour documents several Jewish and civil rights organizations coming to her defense, including Jews...
April 5, 2018Muslim leaders and their lawyers say a settlement of legal claims that the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslims empowers them to prevent future abuse. The deal was announced...
In new FOIA requests, civil rights attorneys request government records after civil rights complaints left unanswered April 26, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Civil rights attorneys today submitted a pair...
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