August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
April 6, 2012, Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General issued two reports on the much-maligned “Secure Communities” deportation program. The...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for oral argument in Bronner v. Duggan , a lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA) and some of its former leaders for a 2013 resolution...
Among George W. Bush’s controversial legal maneuvers was a repackaging of the notion of “enemy combatant.” If the President determined a person was an “enemy combatant,” the Bush Justice lawyers...
Arabs and Muslims detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks can sue top officials in George Bush's administration for civil rights abuses, a court has ruled The landmark ruling from three Court of...
Shira Scheindlin, the federal judge who ruled three years ago that the New York City Police Department’s aggressive stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional , had a few words about Donald Trump...
...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not...
Congress 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...
