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
To mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between...
Updated: December 9, 2013
Sanchez-Espinosa v. Reagan is a case that challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua. In May 1984, while the International Court of Justice was issuing a...
Updated: July 31, 2018
Ms. Q. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) is a lawsuit on behalf of an asylum seeker from El Salvador and her four-year old child, J. They have been unlawfully separated from each...
Updated: December 3, 2018
For decades, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have experienced threats to their health and wellbeing from an outdated, failing public water system. For the past three years, this predominantly...
Updated: December 1, 2025
This case challenges the latest iteration of the government's policy and practice of turning back vulnerable asylum seekers at the Southern border. It follows after the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: November 4, 2025
The NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey Download the factsheet on the NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey (updated Feb. 2015) here . What is the NYPD...
Updated: March 4, 2016
June 17, 2019NY Must End #WalkingWhileTrans Ban On Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with 34 co-signers, wrote to New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker of...
A federal prosecution, under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, of two animal rights activists for allegedly liberating animals from fur farms.
Updated: November 8, 2017
November 28, 2017Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City terror attack on Oct. 31, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in federal court on Tuesday. Saipov, a 29-year-old legal U.S. resident, was...
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