July 13, 2021, Newark, N.J. – Fifteen immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody today lodged a multi-individual complaint with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office...
May 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
December 2, 2016, New York – Today, New York State released Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Blacklist of institutions that participate in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in support of Palestinian...
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Updated: August 13, 2014
Civil rights and community groups across the country denounce Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano’s plans to expand the highly criticized 287(g) program to eleven...
November 9, 2020We voted. The fight continues. Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren emailed the following message to our supporters Wednesday: We may have news at any moment, but I wanted...
As part of a continuing effort to challenge bills that threaten core First Amendment-protected activity in support of Palestinian rights, CCR and other rights organizations have engaged in advocacy...
Updated: December 14, 2018
May 2014State violates free speech rights by selectively banning documentation of animal cruelty at factory farms May 30, 2014 by Lauren Carasik Last week the New York–based Center for Constitutional...
TAKE ACTION: TELL YOUR ELECTED STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO HAVE NO ASSOCIATION WITH THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL! Choose from the list below the link that corresponds with the state you...
Updated: September 1, 2020
July 15, 2019Join us in D.C. Superior Court and support academics in the BDS movement On Wednesday July 17, join the Center for Constitutional Rights and other defense counsel as we argue in support of the...
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