March 2013“'There are three kinds of lies,' Mark Twain was fond of saying: 'Lies, damned lies and statistics.' Selectively presented statistics can be used as much to distort or obscure as they can to...
November 2013A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, all but ending...
"Brown, Black, and Blue: The Stop...
Updated: August 12, 2015
November 5, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the news that Fawzi al Odah was being returned home to Kuwait from...
February 4, 2015 — In light of Ashton Carter's confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The...
This documentary-style play by Jen Marlowe tells the true story of Aseel Asleh, a Palestinian teen who was killed by Israeli police, and his family’s struggle for justice. Performed by NYC activists...
Updated: May 16, 2017
CCR is proud to co-sponsor a special event to celebrate the release of a new book by CNN legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin called The Oath : The Obama White House and the Supreme Court . Toobin...
Updated: December 6, 2012
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to address the Muslim Ban as well as surveillance, profiling, travel restrictions, registries, and more practices that existed long before Trump...
Updated: March 30, 2017
October 4, 2019...Baher Azmy, legal director at the 53-year-old Center for Constitutional Rights — a group that sees its mission as “fusing litigation, advocacy and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of...
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