February 2011A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Color of Change for “Rep-A-Thon,” a live-streamed legal defense fundraiser. Legal representation...
Updated: April 23, 2024
About 800,000 young people in the United States are now in legal limbo. President Donald Trump has scrapped an immigration programme introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama , known as DACA - or...
Updated: September 8, 2017
Rachel Meeropol , Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education for the Center for Constitutional Rights, will be a panelist during the National Conference of...
Updated: October 6, 2021
The Bush Administration, through an amendment introduced by South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, has just successfully stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear applications for habeas corpus...
April 19, 2023The ruling brings the state into line with the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights case White Hat v. Landry , Anne White Hat—a Sicangu, Lakota Water Protector based in...
Updated: September 19, 2022
The right-wing justices have once again signaled that their mission is to dismantle laws that protect marginalized communities
*Please note new date!* Please join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir and the No Separate Justice Campaign on March 2nd as we continue to build a growing voice of people of conscience and shine a...
Updated: February 26, 2015
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
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