July 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before a federal judge in a challenge to Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...
September 30, 2021, New York — In response to today’s hearing in Abdulrahman al-Hela v. Biden on whether a man held at Guantánamo has rights under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, the...
Last week, the New York Police Department released quarterly data on its stop-and-frisk program. The numbers are worse than ever, and they confirm everything that is wrong with this practice. From...
...Fordham is a private Jesuit institution, and as such, it cannot be sued for infringements of free speech like a state institution can. But the lawsuit filed by Palestine Legal and the Center for...
The supreme court on Monday handed a victory to George W Bush’s attorney general, FBI chief and other officials, ruling they cannot be sued over the treatment of detainees, mainly Muslims, who were...
Transparency Goals We are huge fans of transparency in government. In fact, truth in all forms is a pretty good goal. The Center for Constitutional Rights and Defending Rights & Dissent just...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will argue that the government should release an unredacted copy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) " Race Paper ," in our case, Color of Change v. DHS...
... Last year, after three iterations and multiple lawsuits, the travel ban reached the Supreme Court, where it was upheld. Groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights continue to file lawsuits...
Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren delivers his final lecture in his role as Burns Chair on April 30, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m at CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, Long Island...
Join us for a remarkable and eye-opening intergenerational conversation with the brilliant and renowned Dr. Angela Y. Davis hosted by the National Conference of Black Lawyers on Sept. 23rd, 2019...
