June 5, 2015This week marks five years since the Israeli military raided a flotilla of civilian ships on international waters en route to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge the Israeli blockade. Ten...
October 7, 2008, New York – Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United States of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay for nearly seven...
January 7, 2026The invasion, illegal under international law and waged in the name of so-called security, was a turning point in our lives.
March 13, 2024A series of toolkits for activists, advocates, organizers, and community members
On May 11, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a brief letter that outlines the priorities that we would like to see reflected in the second Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic...
Updated: May 13, 2020
Charles Watts is a 51-year-old Black man on whose behalf the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for “compassionate release” in federal court on November 9, 2021.
Updated: December 2, 2022
Join CCR to pack the court on February 3rd in Boston for oral arguments in Blum v. Holder , our legal challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) as an infringement on free speech. CCR...
Updated: January 24, 2014
Challenging the government's decision authorizing the CIA and JSOC to target and kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi in Yemen.
Updated: August 30, 2021
July 16, 2014 – In response to Israel’s ongoing bombardement of Gaza, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli...
Advocates Challenge the Application of ‘Unsafe’ Third Country Rule to Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry December 6, 2019, San Diego – Immigrant rights attorneys filed an emergency motion...
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