June 3, 2019We're helping movements challenge oppressive systems with FOIA requests [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Open Records Project : FOIA...
August 21, 2013 – Today, in response to the sentencing of Pfc. Chelsea Manning, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement. We are outraged that a whistleblower and a...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
Updated: March 1, 2019
This will be a strategic workshop on raising the stakes and the intensity for the immigration debate through direct action. By using lessons learned from the "Bring Jean Home" campaign in...
Updated: March 19, 2010
On Wednesday, February 3rd, join Communities United for Police Reform, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union's Teen Activist Project for a conversation...
Updated: January 28, 2021
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
February 4, 2019Our Legal Director Baher Azmy highlighted some of our greatest hits, and our Executive Director Vince Warren moderated a discussion with activist Joo-Hyun Kang, the director of Communities United for...
Bari v. Held is a lawsuit that charged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), former FBI agent-in-charge Richard Held, and the Oakland Police Department with violating Judi Bari and Darryl...
Updated: January 13, 2010
October 9, 2009, New York, NY – The Court of Appeals heard arguments today in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA...
July 16, 2009, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Sokolski & Zekaria, P.C . filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Brooklyn, New York...
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