In response to the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The entire Center for Constitutional Rights family mourns...
2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, Israel’s genocide of...
Updated: September 9, 2025
The undersigned civil liberties, human rights, national security, and religious organizations write to urge you to oppose H.R. 401 introduced by Representative Walorski barring transfers out of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
August 15, 2022Judge rules U.S. border turnback policy illegal—government must end practice A district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government’s turnback policy — its practice of...
We should all be concerned about human rights and about the negative effects of the Bush administration has had in that area—the torture, the unwarranted wiretapping, the disregard for the...
Updated: April 8, 2008
January 6, 2017January 2017 in Washington is a month history won’t soon forget—and for us at CCR, it’s especially meaningful. We will be at the Supreme Court, arguing Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly known as Turkmen v...
Updated: December 18, 2010
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Administration implementing Trump’s executive order while concealing information about effort February 6, 2025, New York – Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to...
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In...
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