November 13, 2020...Darius Charney is the Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a national legal advocacy group. He told 12 News when departments give their officers discretion over when to...
As part of the Bertha Foundation program, fellows attend a number of conference each year, giving them an opportunity to interact with and learn from attorneys all over the world.
Updated: July 22, 2021
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the upcoming conference, From Classroom to the Community: Teaching and Advancing Social Justice 2016 Society of American Law...
Updated: September 15, 2016
February 11, 2014 , New York – In response to news reports that the Obama administration is considering assassinating an American citizen who allegedly presents a security threat, the Center...
CCR and nine other organizations sent a letter to Congress members on August 9, 2017, expressing opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, federal legislation that would amend existing law to ban...
Updated: December 14, 2018
This petition follows a public records request to the Governor of Louisiana's Office for any records of meetings and/or communications between the Governor and his staff and agents of several...
Updated: September 14, 2018
October 14, 2019Victory! Judge blocks "public charge" immigration rule [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule, which was scheduled...
March 19, 2018T wo civil rights groups want an end to the surveillance of Black activists, including those associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as for an end to the FBI’s silence on a...
April 25, 2017A commission with Gov. Rick Snyder appointees is asking the state Department of Civil Rights to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge against the state’s emergency manager law that Snyder...
June 1, 2022...In response to Buatt’s insistence that the ordinance is not illegal, Pam Spees, senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the Descendants Project, said, “It...
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