May 6, 2025, Philadelphia — The Third Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the government permission to appeal the issue of where Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas case should play out. Back...
August 3, 2016Recent weeks have seen courts around the country rejecting and raising concerns about voting laws that seek to keep people of color (especially Black people), low-income people, and other...
Please join us on President's Day for a special Freedom Flicks screening of the Academy Award-nominated film SPOTLIGHT , followed by a short program and Q&A with honored guest Phil...
Updated: February 8, 2016
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Islamic Center at NYU (ICNYU) invite you to a conversation with Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of NY and co...
Updated: March 4, 2016
Japanese Internment, Warrantless Wiretapping Were Comparable Abuses of Emergency Powers February 15, 2019 , New York – In response to Donald Trump’s invocation today of emergency executive power to...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is a participant in a 2-day national dialogue by the Guantánamo Public Memory Project on Guantánamo’s long history and how it matters today...
Updated: December 10, 2012
March 28, 2011 - Sexual violence in U.S. prisons and jails has reached crisis proportions. Immigration detainees are at especially high risk for sexual violence and have clear disincentives to...
May 15, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the leak of a City memo on the judge overseeing the Center’s...
March 17, 2016This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
July 12, 2017Migrant justice advocates and lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against top U.S. immigration authorities including the Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. They allege that U...
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