CCR joined the National Lawyers Guild, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in...
Updated: November 20, 2014
November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
October 22, 2023...The legislative effort is backed by dozens of human rights groups, including the Adalah Justice Project, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the...
Sanchez-Espinosa v. Reagan is a case that challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua. In May 1984, while the International Court of Justice was issuing a...
Updated: July 31, 2018
May 20, 2019We demanded transparency on Puerto Rico's undemocratic federal fiscal control board [caption align="right"] [/caption] In January 2017, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with Latino Justice...
April 23, 2008, New York and Washington, DC — The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of...
July 14, 2014, Washington, D.C. – In response to today’s en banc ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Al-Bahlul v. United States , the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
CCR joined a coalition letter addressed to President Obama on December 20, 2016. The letter, coordinated by Grassroots Leadership, outlines key steps to dismantle some of the detention and...
Updated: December 21, 2016
On April 22, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined 190 organizations in supporting the call of Palestinian families facing imminent forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah in...
Updated: April 24, 2021
9:30am Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him with war crimes and extra-judicial killing for his role in the...
Updated: December 6, 2007
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