The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Muntaqim v. Coombe that challenged the state law which disenfranchised those...
Updated: October 22, 2007
The population of Hempstead, New York, which covers the heart of Long Island’s Nassau County, is 13 percent Black and Latino, but all of its six Republican council members lived in...
Updated: February 15, 2012
In April 2001, Mohammed Jafar Alam applied for an employment certification under the 245-I LIFE Act, a crucial first step to gaining status for himself and his family; he is still waiting for...
Plaintiffs Seek A Preliminary Injunction To Protect Immigrants Seeking Green Cards While Litigation Continue s January 21, 2020, New York, NY – Today, immigrant rights advocates filed a petition in...
The U.S. 'War on Drugs' and 'War on Terror' have produced a parallel system of state violence and social control, manifested through unjust prosecutions and the mass incarceration of people of color...
Updated: April 18, 2013
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the "war on terror," according to a new report by...
Updated: September 8, 2021
June 14, 2024...Katherine Gallagher, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents the plaintiffs, argued before U.S. Circuit Judges Consuelo María Callahan, Jacqueline Nguyen and...
December 22, 2016Late this fall, like others around the world, I began slowly gaining greater consciousness and awareness of the situation at Standing Rock. This growing awareness accelerated as millions “checked in...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will participate on a panel at NATSECDEF 2018: Preserving Justice in National Security . Artwork as a Bellwether: Detainee Rights at Guantanamo (1:00 – 2:30...
Updated: August 21, 2018
Briggs v. Goodwin is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, known as the “...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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