April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
December 16, 2010, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to President Barack Obama outlining concerns that deporting people with criminal convictions to Haiti...
...“We write to you to express our deep concern over the planned annexation of occupied Palestinian territory by the government of Israel,” says the letter signed by Tlaib. “Prime Minister Benjamin...
April 2, 2014 - We, the undersigned human rights and civil liberties groups, welcome the introduction of The Targeted Lethal Force Transparency Act and commend Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and...
January 9, 2016, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Senator Jefferson Sessions as United States Attorney General, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
March 13, 2018 New York – In response to news that Donald Trump is replacing Rex Tillerson at the State Department with Mike Pompeo, who currently heads the CIA, and naming Gina Haspel to head the...
On April 28, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent copies of their report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S. , to one hundred lawmakers in five states who were...
We continue our fight to protect asylum rights In a decision late Monday , a federal district court rejected the Trump administration's second attempt to dismiss our lawsuit, Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen...
During an intense civil war that displaced 700,000 people and left 3.9 million in need of humanitarian support, Cameroonian security forces have been responsible for extrajudicial killings and...
July 16, 2014 – In response to Israel’s ongoing bombardement of Gaza, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli...
