Baher Azmy , Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director, will join other speakers at this rally where NYC educators, students, workers, and allies will rally in defense of higher education,...
Updated: April 16, 2025
July 2008Congress moving to pay stop-loss soldiers extra, but the Center for Constitutional Rights asserts that regardless of the money, the policy goes against the basic theory of contracts. You can access...
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Updated: May 5, 2015
Join us on May 18 for oral arguments on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of incarcerated people held...
Updated: May 18, 2023
Please join CCR for oral arguments on Wednesday, December 19 th at 9:30 AM PST in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump , a federal lawsuit brought with the American Civil Liberties Union and the...
Updated: December 18, 2018
July 16, 2015The killing of Eric Garner by a police officer using a chokehold last year sparked protests around the country and led rappers to hold memorial concerts in Staten Island, where he was killed, and as...
June 20, 2016“Where were you on March 20, 2003?,” Aaron Hughes , an Iraq War vet and artist, asks our group. We’re sitting on the floor around a Persian rug while Aaron brews a large pot of fragrant Alwazah tea...
June 20, 2017Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
Participatory artist Lizania Cruz , whose most recent art projects focus on immigration, joins Chandra M. Hayslett , Center for Constitutional Rights’ communications director, on The Activist Files...
Updated: February 26, 2019
On Saturday, February 8, 2020, join Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Brittany Thomas in a discourse around reparations and how we might build a coalition across...
Updated: January 30, 2020
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