June 12, 2015The Champaign County court sided with Steven Salaita and has asked the University to hand over the thousands of documents dealing with the professor’s hiring decision. At the Champaign County...
June 21, 2018...Individuals presumed to be gang members face “heightened police surveillance, increased probability of police encounters and, for some, the threat of deportation,” according to a letter sent in...
September 1, 2018Survivors of clergy sex abuse stood in front of the Vatican embassy in Washington on Thursday and urged two higher powers -- the Pope and the US Department of Justice -- to take concrete steps to...
This people's policy roundtable intervenes in the annexation policy conversation by highlighting Palestinian demands and visions for justice and the failures of current U.S. policy, which...
Updated: August 18, 2020
August 18, 2017Four years ago this week, federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the way New York police officers were stopping and frisking individuals amounted to racial discrimination, and was hence...
David Mizner is the communications associate at Center for Constitutional Rights. He’s the author of the novels Political Animal (2004) and Hartsburg U.S.A. (2007), and his short stories, essays, and...
CCR just learned of this important public meeting on the proposed use of Tasers by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) taking place next week. We wanted to reach out to alert you about this...
Updated: February 7, 2013
October 8, 2008, Washington – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the U.S. government’s request for an administrative stay of District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina’s order that 17 innocent...
March 12, 2013, Washington D.C. — Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights provided expert testimony at a thematic hearing about the unfolding humanitarian crisis at Guantánamo before...
June 3, 2013, New York and Ft. Meade – Today, the first day of Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement: Given that he has...
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