Oral Arguments on Police Unions’ Appeal of Denial to Intervene in Stop and Frisk Case Please join CCR for oral arguments in Floyd v. the City of New York at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, October 15. In...
Updated: October 9, 2014
A class action lawsuit challenging the racially discriminatory impact of several standardized tests New York City used in a re-certification process for City public school teachers
Updated: September 23, 2020
August 9, 2016Two years ago today, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Some witness accounts say he had his hands up and said “don’t shoot.”...
Does Obama Want to Close Guantánamo or Not? President Obama says he wants to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, but behind the scenes we see a frighteningly different story of inter-agency...
Updated: August 26, 2015
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out “targeted...
April 4, 2008, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement: "I am pleased the ACLU and the National Association of...
Join Forum on the Arms Trade and the Arms Trade Litigation Monitor for a virtual webinar Tuesday, January 16, from 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. EST . As the Israel-Gaza conflict escalated last year, many...
Updated: January 16, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring Justice Fellow s for 9/2026 - 9/2028. The Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging lawyers (0-2...
Updated: October 10, 2025
November 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to review a Ninth Circuit decision that declared unlawful the U.S. government’s prior...
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