Evidence of the criminal activities of the Bush administration is exceedingly well documented. It is apparent in Bush administration memos, FOIA documents, congressional hearings, court documents,...
Updated: July 23, 2010
March 11, 2021This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
Listen to audio of people telling their stories about being stopped by the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Updated: August 12, 2015
Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least 22 ½ hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,...
Updated: August 15, 2024
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama presented a four-point plan Tuesday to “close Guantanamo once and for all” the president said. The plan now lies in the control of Congress to approve the closure, or not. “...
On April 18, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal opposing S.B. 327, an anti-boycott bill that would prohibit the state from contracting with individuals...
Updated: October 11, 2017
San Diego, January 7, 2021 —Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the...
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
July 15, 2016, Albany – Today, the Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization of Black New York City firefighters, along with their attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the...
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