CCR is proud to cosponsor the 13th annual NYC Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice! Organized by the Audre Lorde Project TransJustice program, this is an opportunity for communities of...
Updated: June 22, 2017
August 19, 2019, New York – In response to the announcement today that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired for his use of an illegal chokehold that killed Eric Garner, the Center for...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farrah at the NYU Review of Law & Social Change's 50 th Anniversary Colloquium to explore a topic that lies at the...
Updated: February 6, 2020
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will join a panel discussion about the tragic December 2015 shooting in San Bernardino, California and subsequent heated dispute: should law enforcement be...
Updated: September 15, 2016
June 17, 2015High-level officials in the George W. Bush administration can be sued by immigrants who were swept up in post-9/11 investigations and subjected to abuse while held in detention facilities, the Second...
June 19, 2017The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that former George W. Bush officials cannot be held liable for the abuse and detention of a group of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in the wake...
July 12, 2017SAN DIEGO — Immigrant advocacy groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday, alleging that people fleeing persecution are frequently turned away at border crossings with Mexico when they seek asylum or...
Justices to Decide Whether to Hear Trump Administration’s Appeal to Lift Preliminary Injunction Protecting Millions of Immigrant Families January 22, 2020, New York – Today, advocates filed a brief...
March 4, 2016More than 100 people turned out last night for a CCR discussion titled “Challenging the rise of Islamophobia in America: An honest conversation.” And an honest as well as far-ranging conversation is...
Recent Yemen Waiver Report Cited in Breyer’s Dissent June 27, 2018, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s Muslim ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
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