Stephanie Llanes is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works in the Government Misconduct Racial Justice docket. Stephanie earned her J.D. from UC Berkeley...
January 2014New York City will settle its long-running legal battle over the Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning and often frisking people on the street — a divisive issue at the...
June 28, 2017Things could have been so different. The Supreme Court’s 2016–17 term, which ended with a flurry of activity on June 26, underscores how much liberals and progressives lost by not coming out for...
On Friday March 16th as CCR’s Azure Wheeler will be arguing that an element of the settlement agreement—the creation of a unit to house prisoners whom the California Department of Corrections and...
Updated: February 28, 2018
June 20, 2013, Baltimore – Last night, a federal district court denied a request for emergency relief in a lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights after the U.S. government voluntarily...
This article was originally posted on January 10, 2011 on IndyBlog Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?
Updated: January 10, 2011
Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along...
Updated: February 7, 2017
On episode 30 of “The Activist Files,” Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Senior Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie talked with Make the Road New York ’s Lead...
Updated: September 18, 2020
December 5, 2017Trump imposed a travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries, a presidential proclamation adding two more. Targeted nations include Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea...
September 21, 2016, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to strike down the federal Animal...
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