May 4, 2020This is the second in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this moment of tens of thousands of lives lost , anti-Asian racism , and inequitable access to COVID-19 testing ,...
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
August 2014On Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a request to the U.S. Supreme Court for judicial review of Blum v. Holder, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise...
March 5, 2024A national day of action kicks off a campaign to center the material needs of poor people
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
On October 2, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that it had filed the first new legal challenges to key provisions of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed by Congress...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will speak on Civil Liberties vs. National Security in Phoenix on November 6th. Constitutional and civil rights developments in the U.S. since 9/11 have had...
Updated: October 20, 2014
University’s Attempt to Dismiss Salaita Suit Over “Uncivil” Tweets Rejected by Court August 6, 2015, Chicago – Today, a federal judge rejected efforts to throw out a lawsuit against the University of...
May 1, 2019...They document that at some point from 2008–2013, of the “10.1% of Michigan residents under emergency management, 70.7% were African American and 7.3% were Hispanic or Latino,” noting that while...
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