June 13, 2010, New York, NY – Yesterday, the United States’ first prosecution under the little known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was derailed when Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the...
January 13, 2017Congressman Mike Pompeo is ill-suited to be CIA director. His résumé is impressive: West Point valedictorian, Army officer, Harvard Law graduate, successful businessman, and a multi-term congressman...
August 22, 2013 – Today, in response to the New York City Council’s override vote on the Community Safety Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: We...
On October 18, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client and extraordinary rendition victim Maher Arar testified at a House Joint Committee hearing convened to discuss his rendition by the...
Please join Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as he participates in this teach-in to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Updated: August 26, 2021
November 29, 2017Newly released FBI and Department of Homeland Security documents reveal that federal law-enforcement agencies worried that violent “black supremacist extremists” would kill police officers, attack...
On May 26, 2026, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a public comment asking the Federal Energy Commission to deny a certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the construction...
Updated: May 29, 2026
CCR is proud to announce Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will present on a panel at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights titled Access to Judicial Remedy. This panel seeks...
Updated: November 30, 2012
The Center for Constitutional Rights and NYU Press invite you to a discussion and reception celebrating the launch of Obama’s Guantánamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison . The collection...
Updated: June 27, 2016
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights has not played a central role. Whether defending...
Updated: May 17, 2012
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