August 10, 2016...Friday is the third anniversary of the landmark federal court ruling by Judge Shira Scheindlin that found “ stop and frisk ” policing as practiced in New York weighed heavily on innocent young men...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
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March 31, 2021A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
May 27, 2020, New York – In response to the killing of another unarmed Black man by the hands of police, Vince Warren , executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, issued the...
December 12, 2015Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants held and abused in Brooklyn federal lockup after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have the right to sue Bush Administration bigs for their detention, the U.S. Second...
September 7, 2017The Center for Constitutional Rights released a report that traces the development of “ag-gag laws” and identifies eight states (Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and...
March 6, 2020...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, is representing two of the victims in the case, Sharqawi Al Hajj and Guled Hassan Duran. Both remain detained at...
July 2012Kim Kardashian's ascendance to the presidency is about as likely as the notion that WikiLeaks harmed U.S. national security, lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning argued in a defense brief released...
November 2011Weeks after issuing a ruling that called the New York Fire Department a “stubborn bastion of white male privilege” based on its unsuccessful efforts at racial integration, a judge on...
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