Tanzin v. Tanvir is a case brought on behalf of American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI for refusing to spy on their Muslim communities. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: December 11, 2020
January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
OFFICE OF THE WISCONSIN STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER 2009 ANNUAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE CONFERENCE JUSTICE FOR ALL? RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM September 24 & 25, 2009...
Updated: September 1, 2009
December 11, 2015In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
Ramon Mejía is an eighth grade social studies teacher and the Field Organizer for About Face: Veterans Against the War, an organization dedicated to building a movement of service members and...
Updated: May 22, 2019
November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
November 24, 2009, Albany, NY – Yesterday, the Court of Appeals of the State of New York affirmed the dismissal of Walton v. New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) . The...
Rukia Lumumba is a legal professional and transformative justice strategist whose work focuses on the intersection of criminal and electoral justice. She believes that increased community agency will...
Bill is Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years...
Updated: January 14, 2010
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