The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Edmund Zagorski, a man imprisoned on death row in Tennessee. CCR argued that the death...
Updated: January 23, 2017
October 29, 2021, Washington, D.C. ‒ A broad coalition of more than 288 U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights organizations is calling on the Biden administration to condemn the...
“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
Updated: July 22, 2010
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hosting a panel at this year’s Netroots Nation 2008 Convention, held from July 17 to July 20, 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Netroots...
Updated: July 2, 2008
April 1, 2022...Ketanji Brown Jackson explained how the Supreme Court decided that even those embattled prisoners had rights. “Judge Jackson was one of many hundreds of lawyers…to challenge this remarkable...
November 3, 2017, Kabul, New York, The Hague – After a decade-long preliminary examination, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor today gave formal notice she will submit a request to...
December 10, 2018Reunified and Released: Salvadoran mother and son reunited after eight months of separation [caption align="right"] [/caption] A Salvadoran mother and her four-year-old son are together again, eight...
Please join CCR and our partners in Chicago for a Tea Engagement , part of the Tea Project , an ongoing series of exhibitions and performances that offers counter-narratives to disrupt the...
Updated: March 28, 2016
July 1, 2020... Khan’s attorney, J. Wells Dixon of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, explained that he read the judge’s decision as also “open[ing] the door to a claim that Mr. Khan was denied...
May 21, 2009, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner and Managing Attorney for CCR’s Guantanamo project Shayana Kadidal responded with disappointment to President Obama’...
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