In September 1988, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won a significant victory for the Nicaraguan humanitarian aid campaign. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas did...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Biden, Blinken, and Austin claim “foreign policy” decisions are exempt from judicial review; legal team argues in appeal reply brief submitted today that aiding and abetting genocide can never be a...
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
Dr. Badar Khan Suri was released on May 14th after ICE arrested him for constitutionally protected association and speech in support of Palestinian rights July 1, 2025, Richmond, VA – The Fourth...
Billionaire Investor Chris James, hailed as a green hero, is behind project seeking to make use of an old zoning ordinance shrouded in corruption that threatens the health, culture, and very...
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any...
Updated: December 2, 2007
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 3, 2017
June 8, 2020We all have a role in this movement #BlackLivesMatter [caption align="right"] [/caption] Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know...
June 22, 2020Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
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