August 28, 2018... The “Protect the Protest” task force announced Tuesday targets what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie as she leads a congressional briefing on the criminalization of queer and trans communities in collaboration...
Updated: June 8, 2019
November 21, 2019... “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico...
March 4, 2020..."Once again the courts have recognized there is tremendous danger facing asylum seekers along the entire southern border, and that the administration cannot unilaterally rewrite the laws," Lee...
Emily Ballas is the Graphic Design Associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is responsible for a range of design needs across different departments. Prior to coming to the Center for...
Join CCR, Communities United for Police Reform , and New Yorkers to rally to demand NYC Council pass the Right to Know Act. The Right to Know Act is a legislative package that will help prevent...
Updated: October 4, 2017
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei for a workshop at Yale Law School on U.S. targeted killings on February 19th. Pardiss Kebriaei is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center...
Updated: February 18, 2015
August 27, 2015Tariq Ali Abdullah Ba Odah is a detainee at Guantánamo who the government has determined to be a member of al Qaeda and/or Taliban forces. Ba Odah filed a petition for habeas corpus to challenge that...
November 13, 2015After 15 months, two lawsuits, a chancellor's resignation, an academic censure and a boycott, the University of Illinois settled with Steven Salaita on Thursday. The price tag for the university’s...
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