July 11, 2011, New York – In a victory today for plaintiffs the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice...
October 20, 2021Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
November 14, 2007, New York, NY – Last night, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys and co-counsel submitted the final brief to the Supreme Court in the case that will determine whether...
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 24, 2010. US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to...
Updated: June 3, 2010
Arguments in Major Asylum Case to Be Held March 24 February 20, 2026, Washington, DC – This week, Democratic lawmakers, former government officials, human rights advocates, immigration law professors...

Help us honor the legacy of Michael Ratner and keep up the fight!
On October 6, 2016, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Michael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation, rooted in the values that have always guided us and aimed at building a future as strong as our past. The Campaign deepens our capacity to act as the go-to legal and advocacy partner of social justice movements, spend more time on the ground, shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners, and recruit, mentor, and train young movement lawyers and advocates!
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The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
This submission is on behalf of the Immigrant Defense Project’s (IDP’s) Surveillance Tech and Immigration Policing project and the Center for Constitutional Rights, in response to the Office of High...
Updated: March 3, 2022
Leer en español اقرأ باللغة العربية February 02, 2023, Belize City, Belize – Today, more than 16 years after he was brought to Guantánamo Bay and almost a year after he completed a military...
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