Join the Center for Constitutional Rights to celebrate the publication of the new book by former Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz. In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen...
Updated: March 31, 2008
January 2014New York City will settle its long-running legal battle over the Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning and often frisking people on the street — a divisive issue at the...
June 28, 2017Things could have been so different. The Supreme Court’s 2016–17 term, which ended with a flurry of activity on June 26, underscores how much liberals and progressives lost by not coming out for...
On Friday March 16th as CCR’s Azure Wheeler will be arguing that an element of the settlement agreement—the creation of a unit to house prisoners whom the California Department of Corrections and...
Updated: February 28, 2018
April 17, 2013, Boston and New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed the dismissal by a federal judge of a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the...
June 20, 2013, Baltimore – Last night, a federal district court denied a request for emergency relief in a lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights after the U.S. government voluntarily...
This article was originally posted on January 10, 2011 on IndyBlog Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?
Updated: January 10, 2011
February 13, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova urging her to take concrete action to stop Israel's continued destruction...
Updated: February 13, 2013
Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along...
Updated: February 7, 2017
December 5, 2017Trump imposed a travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries, a presidential proclamation adding two more. Targeted nations include Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea...
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