July 25, 2019...The court's decision would save lives, added Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which joined the ACLU in the lawsuit. “The court correctly decided that decades of US asylum law...
September 2, 2021,San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that...
President Obama has failed in his pledge of eight years ago to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo. Congressional obstacles, misinformation perpetuated in the media, and the president's own...
Updated: January 6, 2017
CCR is pleased to participate in the Students for Liberty New York City Regional Conference. CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak on their Civil Liberties Panel about NYPD Stop and...
Updated: October 26, 2012
March 2013In one of the most significant courtroom tests of a key Bloomberg administration policy, a federal judge will begin hearing testimony on Monday in a trial to determine whether the New York Police...
June 5, 2020... "The NYPD's approach to social-distancing enforcement is stop and frisk 2.0," said Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "But since the...
April 2011Say what you will about President Obama, but something is undeniable: When it comes to immigration his administration has been consistent in speaking from both sides of its mouth. Take the case of...
February 1 2, 2014 , New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-USA (CAIR-USA) sent members of the House of...
New York, July 28th – On Monday, August 1, the City of New York will be asked at a trial in federal court in Brooklyn how it intends to remedy its 40-year history of racial discrimination...
November 15, 2021In July 2017, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, two activists from the Catholic Worker Movement, held a press conference to announce that they were responsible for acts of vandalism against the...
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