On October 9, 2007, the U.S. government filed its opposing brief in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Supreme Court case that will decide once again whether the Guantanamo detainees have the...
December 8, 2016... In early 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs who claimed the city’s stop-and-frisk policies were racially biased. The case wound its way...
In 2006 and 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) created Communications Management Units (CMUs), prison units designed to isolate and segregate certain prisoners in the federal prison system...
Updated: October 14, 2021
From DemocracyNow.org: The Obama administration launched a drone strike in Yemen last week in an attempt to assassinate a U.S.-born Muslim cleric who has never been convicted of a crime. Anwar al-...
Updated: August 16, 2012
Click here for link to PDF version of testimony. TESTIMONY OF DARIUS CHARNEY CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO THE NEW YORK CITY CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD REGARDING THE NEW YORK POLICE...
Updated: January 16, 2021
June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
Lexi Webster (she/they) is the Digital Engagement Manager for the Center for Constitutional Rights. She supports the Communications team managing and executing our social media strategies; helping to...
January 18, 2017It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
Plaintiffs & NJ Muslims Targeted by Discriminatory Police Surveillance Have First Face-to-Face Meeting with City and NYPD Officials Newark, NJ — Following a historic lawsuit over the New York...
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