April 1, 2019...CMUs are experimental social isolation units that were initially created in 2006 and 2008. As the Center for Constitutional Rights describes , “Individuals detained in the CMUs are completely...
May 15, 2025, Jackson, MS – The People's Advocacy Institute (PAI) and Mississippi Poor People's Campaign (MS-PPC), who were granted intervenor status in 2024 in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S...
September 16, 2020...Al-Alaqi v. Panetta was a lawsuit filed in 2012 challenging the targeted drone killings by the United States of three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Although the U.S. government has carried out targeted...
ICE Documents Obtained Under Freedom of Information Act Show Surveillance and Targeting of Sanctuary Leaders October 22, 2020, New York – Today, immigrant rights groups released documents obtained...
If you know CCR, you’re probably familiar with some of our groundbreaking cases. But who are the people working at the Center for Constitutional Rights? In the third episode of The Activist Files, we...
Updated: February 26, 2019
Please join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas, at the 2019 Minnesota Journal of International bi-annual symposium as she discusses Civil Liberties and Privacy in the...
Updated: September 25, 2019
May 22, 2020...Right now, the “impossible” is happening every day. In Detroit, with COVID-19 bursting the boundaries of our everyday catastrophes, we are seeing astounding — and overdue — changes in police and...
On Wednesday, February 24th, at 7:00 p.m. EST, join the University of Alabama School of Law Middle Eastern Law Students Association — in partnership with the Black Law Student Association...
Updated: February 24, 2021
January 2013Is there anything extremist right-wing preachers won’t blame on LGBT people? After the Newtown shooting, James Dobson listed tolerance of gay marriage as one of the reasons God’s...
September 20, 2015It was August 2002. My partner Jan Adams and I were just beginning our annual pilgrimage to Massachusetts to visit my father and stepmother. At the check-in line at San Francisco International...
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