ACS has long abused its so-called “emergency removal” authority, consistently relying on it in over 50 percent of removals — with devastating consequences for families 90 percent of ACS’s “emergency...
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Updated: April 9, 2018
Rooted in racism, decades-long crisis caused by chronic neglect harms tens of thousands in predominantly Black city August 10, 2023, Jackson, MS – Yesterday, grassroots organizations representing...
December 26, 2017In a case asking a Manhattan court to direct Fordham University to recognize Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as an official club,...
May 12, 2026“Despite the FBI closing its investigation with no findings to support the accusation, the Trump administration continued to label Mr. Khalil a supporter of Hamas in public comments,” said CCR staff...
October 8 is radical lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart's birthday. Supporters will hold birthday vigils for compassionate release in cities across the country, including New York, Albany,...
Updated: January 2, 2014
January 29, 2016Adapted from remarks delivered by Vince Warren upon accepting the 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Civil Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association, New...
The part-time Temporary Events and Advocacy Associate will support logistical coordination for upcoming Center for Constitutional Rights advocacy events, including a series on the 20th anniversary of...
Updated: December 17, 2021
February 2012Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which a group of Nigerians claim that they or their relatives have been the victims of...
January 11, 2018Today, the Guantanamo prison enters its 17 th year. 41 Muslim men still languish there, trapped in an ever-present reminder of their captors’ official experiment with torture. Five of them have long...
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