February 17, 2021...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not...
August 30, 2013 – In response to signals from the Obama administration that it will pursue U.S. military intervention in Syria in the wake of attacks last week, the Center for Constitutional...
August 25, 2016I joined the Center for Constitutional Rights through the Ella Baker Summer Fellowship Program to understand better how I, when I become a lawyer, can be more responsive and accountable to social...
With the release of the Senate CIA Torture Report earlier this month, the torture debate is going strong. Despite President Obama’s admission that “we crossed a line” and “...
Updated: January 2, 2015
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent Illinois State Senators on the Higher Education Committee a letter on March 4, 2014 urging them to oppose pending legislation that would withhold state...
Updated: April 3, 2014
Jessica Vosburgh is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she focuses on litigation and advocacy in collaboration with grassroots partners in the South. She is based in...
Mohammed Kamin’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) proceedings were part of an administrative process created to review the cases of those Guantánamo detainees who are neither already cleared for release...
Updated: March 2, 2017
Please join the NY Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Al-Awda NY, and DRUM for this important event. When: Saturday May 21st Where: 56 Walker St. in lower Manhattan- Any train to Canal St., two blocks...
Updated: May 18, 2011
Attorney, author and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) President Michael Ratner is the recipient of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. One of the country's foremost defenders...
Updated: December 2, 2007
September 26, 2017Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our...
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