May 22, 2013, New York – In response to news today that the Department of Justice has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Center for Constitutional...
Four years ago this week, federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the way New York police officers were stopping and frisking individuals amounted to racial discrimination, and was hence...
David Mizner is the communications associate at Center for Constitutional Rights. He’s the author of the novels Political Animal (2004) and Hartsburg U.S.A. (2007), and his short stories, essays, and...
June 3, 2013, New York and Ft. Meade – Today, the first day of Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement: Given that he has...
September 23, 2020, New York – In response to today’s announcement that only one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor was indicted, and on a wanton endangerment charge...
FBI Agents Listed them for Refusing to Inform, Suit Says March 1, 2017, New York – Today, civil rights attorneys urged a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit against the FBI for retaliating...
August 14, 2015, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba – Today, the Obama administration filed under seal its response to a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) motion seeking the immediate release from Guantánamo...
Since 2009, appropriations bills passed by the U.S. Congress have required the funding of 34,000 immigration detention beds per day. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and...
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
