Please pack the court on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 11 am for oral arguments in our stop and frisk class action, Floyd v. City of New York . Earlier this month, community groups, labor...
Updated: October 29, 2013
January 7, 2020, New York – Today, lawyers representing community groups in New York City argued before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to reject the Trump administration’s...
Ghita Schwarz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on racial justice, immigrants' rights, and government misconduct and transparency. Her current cases...
July 2, 2018With a conservative Supreme Court majority, it was no surprise the justices upheld Trump's Muslim Ban. But there was a silver lining: In a vote against the racist policy, Justice Breyer cited on page...
Updated: October 8, 2014
Courts, Not Trump, Will Decide Fate of Prisoners, Attorneys Say January 30, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s statement in tonight’s State of the Union address that he is issuing an executive...
Red to Green: Political Panic from McCarthyism to ‘Eco-Terrorism’ A panel discussion on past and present political persecution the United States Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6:30pm...
Updated: November 30, 2011
The 24 th episode of “The Activist Files” was the Center for Constitutional Rights’ first live podcast. The episode was recorded Feb. 28, 2020 at Studio Arte before a live audience and was the...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
Updated in 2020! The Center for Constitutional Rights created If An Agent Knocks to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI agents or other federal investigators. Since its original...
Updated: October 28, 2020
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