September 6, 2013, New York – Today, in Floyd v. City of New York , a federal class action lawsuit that successfully challenged the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk...
March 27, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel responded to notice that the City of New York intends to introduce into evidence a March 5, 2013 NYPD...
March 19, 2021, New York – On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Eighteen years after the United States invaded...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007: National Demonstrations for Justice at Guantanamo On December 5th, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for the cases of Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. U.S. , brought...
Updated: November 29, 2007
January 2009With the signing of yesterday's executive orders to close Guantanamo and end torture, we are finally seeing the beginning of a reversal of some of the nastiest inhuman practices of the Bush...
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Founding Director of...
From the leader of the “free world” to the leader of a worldwide faith, each person must be subject to the rule of law. Where national legal systems are unable or unwilling to hold...
Updated: November 23, 2011
Dear Secretary Blinken: The undersigned U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights leaders and organizations write to demand that you immediately and unequivocally condemn the Israeli...
Updated: November 18, 2021
November 9, 2016Over the last several weeks, CCR has received 634 messages of support and solidarity with our clients from Sexual Minorities Uganda . As we head into court in Springfield this morning with SMUG, we...
February 5, 2016In a major legal victory for international human rights law, the UN acknowledged the risk of extradition to the United States faced by journalist Julian Assange. This decision marks a significant...
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