The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) condemns the death of a fourth prisoner held without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The detainee is Saudi but has not yet been identified by the...
June 13, 2010, New York, NY – Yesterday, the United States’ first prosecution under the little known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was derailed when Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights at The People's Forum for a screening of the documentary Powerlands , followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Ivey-Camille...
January 16, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, Louisiana groups represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC to make its...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this short film-series and talk-back, which will take place in Room 223 . The #NoBayouBridge short-film series and panel discussion will detail how a fight to...
The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights this morning filed a lawsuit in federal court against several Obama officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David...
Cancer Alley residents are challenging St. James Parish Council’s decades-old practice of placing plants in majority-Black districts April 9, 2025, New Orleans – Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of...
February 14, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has decided to sign...
Join CCR and pack the court on Thursday, May 1, 2014 for oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-...
...The Banner twins are the founders of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit that fights for historic and cultural preservation for descendants of enslaved people. It was through their nonprofit that...
