June 19, 2017The Supreme Court has ruled that six men detained after the September 11 attacks are not legally able to sue top officials from the Bush administration. The men, who are of Arab or South Asian...
On this bonus episode of The Activist Files , CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei about Pardiss’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
January 21, 2021... Terrorism is a nebulous legal concept , and related statutes have historically been used to target Black and brown communities and environmental activists — rarely ever used to prosecute far-...
On Tuesday, May 18th, at 10:00 a.m. EST, join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Families for Freedom, the Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition, State Senator Julia Salazar (D18), and Assemblymember...
Updated: May 15, 2021
October 5, 2023...The lawsuit seeks to protect participants in the march and other trans and nonbinary people, said Zee Scout, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents the plaintiffs. “...
Jim Crow juries helped Louisiana reproduce a system of white domination following the Civil War
AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
Updated: July 19, 2010
March 4, 2013, New York – In response to news from their attorneys that most of the men at Guantanamo have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Board Members Radhika Balakrishnan and Chandra Bhatnagar & Executive Director Vince Warren invite you to the Annual Social Justice Throwdown A fundraiser for The Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: April 12, 2011
Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 for oral arguments on class certification in Ashker v. Brown , our federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. In the...
Updated: September 19, 2013
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