November 18, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the ACLU of Southern California sent the following letter to UCLA today regarding violations of the right to free expression and political...
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
FOREIGN INTERROGATORS IN GUANTÁNAMO BAY US Allows Security Forces from Brutal Human Rights Abusing Regimes into Guantanamo; Many Countries Complicit in Abuses at Guantánamo Since as...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Evidence of the criminal activities of the Bush administration is exceedingly well documented. It is apparent in Bush administration memos, FOIA documents, congressional hearings, court documents,...
Updated: July 23, 2010
*Updated March 2017* Download this factsheet as a PDF. What is Solitary Confinement? Today, tens of thousands of individuals across the country are detained in near-total solitude for between 22 and...
Updated: March 15, 2018
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
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2020-9/2022. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging...
Updated: February 13, 2020
December 16, 2015It has been two and a half years since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed the massive scope of our government’s bulk surveillance of global telecommunications. The first document to be published...
Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
Updated: May 23, 2016

Help us honor the legacy of Michael Ratner and keep up the fight!
On October 6, 2016, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Michael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation, rooted in the values that have always guided us and aimed at building a future as strong as our past. The Campaign deepens our capacity to act as the go-to legal and advocacy partner of social justice movements, spend more time on the ground, shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners, and recruit, mentor, and train young movement lawyers and advocates!
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