April 2, 2022...Barhoumi, who lost four fingers in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan, offered to plead guilty to any charges in 2012 in hopes he could receive a fixed sentence and return to his elderly mother...
September 23, 2022... But stop and frisks have increased dramatically under Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, whom he appointed in December. Police recorded 4,116 stop-and-frisks in the second quarter of...
The Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to Barnard College President Debora Spar on March 13, 2014 urging her to reconsider her decision to remove a Columbia Students for Justice in...
Updated: March 26, 2014
November 13, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the statement below in response to the New York City Fire Department’s (FDNY) press release touting the more...
February 11, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to eight New York City Council Members, in response to their threat to...
Updated: February 11, 2013
The Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise on August 7, 2014 regarding her decision to terminate the appointment of Professor Steven...
Updated: August 7, 2014
April 2014The city has disbanded an New York City Police Department surveillance division created to spy on Muslim communities. The Demographics Unit kept tabs on Muslims by having plainclothes officers...
In the small community of Newburgh, New York a mysterious businessman infiltrates a local mosque supposedly looking to cultivate business associates. He is in fact working as an informant for the FBI...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Please join CCR on Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am (CST) in Chicago for oral arguments in U.S. v. Johnson , an appeal from the federal prosecution of two animal rights activists under the Animal...
Updated: September 16, 2016
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