As part of coalitions of LGBTQIA+ rights and justice organizations, the Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted letters and testimony to Congressional committees, federal commissions, and...
Updated: December 3, 2025
September 11, 2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL – Prof. Steven Salaita and his attorneys responded today to the announcement that the Board of Trustees voted to terminate him from a tenured position...
August 1, 2014 – In light of the ongoing violence in Gaza, which has already taken the lives of over one thousand civilians, including hundreds of children, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: August 1, 2014
Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Artwork by Micah Bazant "This fight is not just my fight, it's our fight. My hope is that the future is brighter for people like me. I hope this lawsuit forever changes the way transgender people in...
Updated: January 19, 2023
January 25, 2016Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
March 2014ELEVEN years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq in an unprovoked, unnecessary, unconstitutional action that violated international law. Not long after the March 2003 military blunder...
On Friday, May 10, CCR has an important oral argument in our case against private military contractor CACI for torture at Abu Ghraib. CACI seeks dismissal of Plaintiffs’ Alien Tort Statute (...
Updated: May 7, 2013
January 19, New York – Today, the Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced its decision to approve Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Zahir Hamdoun for transfer from Guantánamo. Mr. Hamdoun,...
February 5, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Dr. Steven Salaita over the American Studies Association’s (ASA) resolution to endorse the call to...
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