October 31, 2016 – In response to a federal judge’s refusal to approve a settlement between the City of New York and plaintiffs in the Handschu case related to NYPD suspicionless surveillance of...
June 7, 2024...After 9/11, everyone – immigrant and citizen, activist and spectator – became vulnerable. And a new category of suspicion fully entered the national imagination: the Muslim American. The anti-...
August 26, 2015, New York – In response to the United Kingdom’s diplomatic protest of Ecuador’s continued provision of asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
CCR is proud to join the New York Day of Remembrance Committee (NYC DOR) in a two-day program marking the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the...
Updated: February 14, 2017
The Civil Rights Étouffée is back for a two-day CLE for civil rights counsel or attorneys who want to learn more or need CLE and love New Orleans, on February 13 - 14, 2025 . Center...
Updated: January 22, 2025
The Center for Constitutional Rights recently sent a letter to New York City Council members to urge them to oppose security perimeter bills Int. 001-B (Menin) and Int. 175-B (Dinowitz) that would...
Updated: April 2, 2026
But Muslims Who Refuse to Spy Were Removed From No-Fly List After They Sued September 3, 2015, New York – Today, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against 24 Federal Bureau of Investigation (...
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
June 1, 2009, New York, NY – In response to the murder of respected and celebrated OB-GYN physician and abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas this week, the Center for...
August 4, 2016 New York – In response to reports that some members of the New York State Assembly plan to introduce a “Blue Lives Matter” bill today to add police to the groups covered under existing...
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