April 14, 2017“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” Those are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Public Justice at a special showing of "Battle in Seattle" at 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 25th at the Angelika Film Center ,...
Updated: September 19, 2008
Since taking office, the Trump administration has been committed in its attack against low-income immigrants of color. One of its priorities has been to transform the system of family-based...
Updated: January 21, 2025
Plaintiff Rahinah Ibrahim is a Muslim woman and a citizen of Malaysia who was a doctoral student at Stanford University writing her thesis on affordable housing. She has neither a criminal record nor...
Updated: July 10, 2012
The Center for Constitutional Rights has long stood in solidarity with popular and democratic movements in Haiti to address the undemocratic forces at play there and the interests in the United...
Updated: August 23, 2011
D.C. Appellate Court Asked to Reverse Lower Court Ruling Refusing to Dismiss Lawsuit Targeting Advocacy as a SLAPP July 7, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, academics who were sued over the American...
June 2014By ERICA GOODE More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have...
December 10, 2008, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director...
April 15, 2026The U.S. and Israel threaten to forge a more openly violent world order free of all legal and political constraints
December 19, 2016On January 18, 2017, CCR will argue the last case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during Obama’s presidency, Ziglar v. Abbasi , which by the time it is decided may become the most important...
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