On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
May 2014Idaho became the latest state to pass an "ag-gag" law, punishing whistleblowing in animal agriculture, just this past February. In March, it became the latest state to get sued for doing so...
May 8, 2019On April 16, 2019, a video surfaced depicting a group of armed white males detaining at gunpoint a large group of purported migrants. Operating in the pitch black of night somewhere in New Mexico,...
February 2, 2023We are thrilled to share this news: Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was transferred from Guantánamo to Belize today. He is the first “high-value” detainee to be released, and the...
As an organization that stands with social movements and communities resisting oppression, we know that change is possible when artists, storytellers, and lawyers dream together. This Black History...
Updated: February 20, 2020
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 12, 2017
This comes after ICE arrested Mr. Khalil for his support for Palestinian rights and sent him to a detention facility 1,400 miles away from his family March 19, 2025, New York – The Southern District...
April 18, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal and the law office of Matthew Strugar. A news release from them said the law violates the First Amendment and is part of a broader effort to...
February 14, 2017... The vast majority of “terrorists” cited in the CIS study were convicted for providing “material support” to designated terrorist organizations, not for actually planning or committing acts of...
September 25, 2018The Activist Files is a podcast by the Center for Constitutional Rights where we feature the stories of people on the front lines fighting for justice, including activists, lawyers, and artists. We...
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