For years California prisons used soundproof and windowless cells to confine thousands of inmates in near total isolation for years. But hunger strikes, Sacramento debates and now a court case...
December 12, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report analyzing the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk data for January 2010...
Earlier this month, Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss removed Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa as his running mate in the Illinois gubernatorial race due to Ramirez-Rosa’s refusal to oppose the...
Pressure is building on the new president from his more urgent supporters to begin validating their audacious hopes within his first 100 days. Special heat is on to abolish torture. After all, during...
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Yesterday morning, the New York Times editorial board took note of Obama Administration’s latest policy inconsistency: fighting in the Supreme Court this week to halt deportations of many...
April 4, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news that the Obama administration will try the 9/11 defendants in the military commissions system rather than Article III civilian courts, the...
This lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief from the Trump administration’s express targeting of plaintiffs for categorical, unjustified, and unconstitutional punishment by incarceration in...
July 27, 2023, San Diego, CA – Today two immigrant rights groups and a group of asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Biden administration’s unlawful policy of...
In response to the election of Donald Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We send love and solidarity to all those who are hurting and afraid that Donald Trump...
