CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give a talk entitled “Challenging State Power in the 9/11 Era: Guantanamo, Profiling and Human Rights” on Tuesday, December 8 th , at 4:15 p.m. as part of the 2015-...
Updated: December 3, 2015
June 12, 2020, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the statement below in response to the Trump administration's change to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act today. The Center...
June 3, 2022... “Wendi is such a kind person and she tells her story really well,” Plotka said. “She made our job easy.” In 2011 and 2012, there was some reform around CANS. Women with a Vision launched the No...
August 4, 2023...Understanding this history is critical to understanding the region today, Pamela Spees, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Insider. In the aftermath of the Civil...
September 2008"When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his...
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
August 13, 2015In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
August 16, 2017The public is stepping forward with an outpouring of financial donations to help the people hurt Saturday when a car rammed into counter-protesters during an alt-right demonstration in...
Christiane Amanpour talks to Vince Warren from the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin about justice in the U.S.
Updated: May 30, 2015
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 6, 2016. We will discuss a joint report by Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and CCR about current immigration home raid practices , especially in light of...
Updated: July 6, 2016
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