City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is a case about the criminalization of poverty. The Supreme Court has decided whether people experiencing involuntary homelessness in a city with no safe, available...
Updated: June 28, 2024
Currently at Guantánamo, the majority of detainees are being held in conditions of solitary confinement in one of two super-maximum facilities – Camps 5 and 6 – or in Camp Echo. The conditions in...
Updated: February 23, 2009
December 30, 2015The failure to indict a police officer for yet another killing of a young, Black person – this time a child, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – should outrage us and cause us to look more deeply at the...
May 8, 2020People often say “you cannot put a value on human life,” but nobody seems to have told this to the American Legislative Exchange Council – known by its acronym, ALEC. ALEC was one of the right-wing...
Pardiss Kebriaei is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where her work encompasses "national security" and criminal justice issues. Current clients include Sharqawi Al...
"People from diverse communities across the country will gather in our nation's capital to send a bold message to the incoming President and Congress on their first day in office: women's rights are...
Updated: January 6, 2017
In appeal of “Irvine 11” convictions, CCR, JVP submit Amicus Brief highlighting prospect of discriminatory prosecution against Muslim students who spoke out for Palestinian human rights...
Updated: October 10, 2013
June 23, 2016, Salt Lake City – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a brief in support of animal rights activists challenging Utah’s so-called “ag-gag” law, which punishes...
Successful challenges to Louisiana’s requirement that people convicted of Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) register as sex offenders.
Updated: March 7, 2023
The Peace and Justice Task Force is pleased to host the Metro NY Religious Campaign Against Torture's Annual Interfaith Gathering with the focus on Torturing the Mind: U.S. Involvement in...
Updated: January 5, 2011
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